Stephanie J Zhu is pursuing a Ph.D. at the Department of
Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education at Virginia Tech. She earned
her B.A. in Computer Science from Vassar College and her M.S. in Rural
Sociology & International Agriculture and Development from Penn State
University. She has worked for the American Farmland Trust as a Research and
DEIJ (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice) graduate intern. Her research
interests surround national U.S. agriculture policy and the potential for
agroecology to be a transformative framework in the U.S. policy context.
Bronwen Powell is an Associate Professor of Geography,
African Studies and Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. She holds an MSc in Ethnobotany, Department of Anthropology from the
University of Kent and a Ph.D. in Human Nutrition from the Center for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment at McGill University. Broadly, her research examines
the social, cultural, and environmental drivers of human nutrition, diet, and
food security. Her recent research focuses on how forests, landscape diversity,
and land use change contribute to human diet and nutrition. Most recently she
has been examining how climate change, land use change, market access, and
policy change impact the food systems and diets of rural and Indigenous peoples
around the world.
