Jesse Kurtz-Nicholl
Jesse Kurtz-Nicholl is a research assistant at Center for a Livable Future and a current MPH candidate at Johns Hopkins. Before coming to CLF, Jesse was an Economics and Politics teacher at Richmond High School in California. He was teaching in the midst of a failed food environment with high obesity rates, limited food access and families scoured by diabetes. He began an urban agriculture program with a working CSA model and Food System course that the students could take for graduation credits. In their first growing season the program yielded over 1200 pounds of produce for low-income families. Jesse looks to continue his work on community food system issues with special consideration to introducing urban agriculture and food system courses taught in the nation’s public schools. Jesse is currently working with Leo Horrigan on a food system curriculum for High School students.
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