Welcome!
I am a researcher with a passion for bridging research and practice.
Research
In my research role at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), my work focuses on transformation of food systems toward those that support sustainable futures. My work has synthesized what we know about the sustainability of certain food contexts, explored opportunities for a positive transformation and identified barriers that will need to be overcome.
Nordic expertise
As a researcher based in Stockholm, I have had the opportunity to travel around the Nordic countries and connect with food system actors. The level of collaboration to develop better food systems across the Nordics is unique, but each country faces its own challenges and has explored different paths forward. This is certainly a region to watch for sustainable solutions and innovation in food systems.
International training
My roots, however, are not Nordic. Born and raised in the US, I moved abroad after graduating from university with a degree in nutrition science. I spent seven incredible years in New Zealand earning three post-graduate degrees. This included a Master of Public Health and a PhD focused on food policy and governance in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. After graduating, I interned with the World Health Organization in Geneva briefly before landing in Stockholm. After seven years in Sweden, home was calling. I had the privilege of collaborating with the World Food Policy Center at Duke University as a visiting researcher during a luxuriously long research exchange. During the year and a half in North Carolina, 'visiting researcher' turned to full employee. But I had a brand new job to get back to at SLU, and it was a bittersweet goodbye as my husband and I packed our bags for our move back to Stockholm, where we still live...for the moment!