Revitalizing Land-Grant Universities
Speakers
Ricardo Salvador
Ricardo Salvador is Senior Scientist and Director of the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. As Associate Professor of Agronomy at Iowa State University, he taught the first course in sustainable agriculture at a land-grant university.
Margiana Petersen-Rockney
Margiana Petersen-Rockney is Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies at the University of Montana. She is a political ecologist who studies climate equity and agrarian change.
Moderators
Kerilyn Schewel
Kerilyn Schewel is a Senior Fellow at COMIT. She is co-director of the Duke Program on Climate-Related Migration and Lecturing Fellow in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Her research examines the relationship between migration and development, with a current focus on immobility, rural livelihoods, and climate change. Her book, Moved by Modernity: How Development Shapes Migration in Rural Ethiopia, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Lee Miller
Lee Miller is a Senior Fellow at COMIT. He is a Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School, where he teaches on agricultural and environmental law. Miller also has amassed expertise in environmental advocacy, policy innovation, and coalition-building in U.S. food and farm movements. At the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, Miller coordinated a multi-law school farm bill research project promoting agricultural sustainability and justice.