Debra Pearson, Associate Professor of Human Biology and Nutritional Sciences and Co-Director of the Center for Food in Community and Culture (pearsond@uwgb.edu).

Lynn Walter, Rosenberg Professor of Social Change and Development and Anthropology and Co-Director of the Center for Food in Community and Culture (walterl@uwgb.edu). She has developed a new senior seminar on Food and Social Change. Her interest in food studies developed from her scholarly focus on gender and family issues worldwide. She is specifically interested in the significance of commensality (eating together) as a practice of social solidarity. Her research asks what impact the individuation of a globalizing world has on commensality and on local efforts to create it.

Derryl Block, Professor and Chair of Nursing (blockd@uwgb.edu). I am a public health nurse interested in the promotion of public health and healthy communities through healthy environments (including clean water, nutritious food, and sustainable food systems) and community empowerment.

Regan Gurung, Associate Professor of Human Development and Psychology and Chair of Human Development (gurungr@uwgb.edu).

Aeron Haynie, Associate Professor of Humanistic Studies and Chair of English (hayniea@uwgb.edu).