Meet Our Team
We are an interdisciplinary team of professionals with a systemic perspective to food security, sustainability, and regenerative agriculture, which integrates humanities and social, nutritional, and natural sciences.
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Program Director
Lluvia Flores-Renteria
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Associate Professor of Biology
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Director, Binational Studies Program
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Evolutionary ecology, forestry, ethnobotany, plant evolution, & hybridization
Participating Faculty
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli
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Professor of Geography
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Director/Advisor, Urban Studies and Food Studies Programs
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Community food security, food and place, food justice, immigrant food practices, & alternative food practices
Storm Hall 309B | pmarcell@sdsu.edu
Participating Faculty
Changqi Lui
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Associate Professor of Food Science
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Food allergen, nutritional, & physicochemical properties of alternative proteins
ENS 308 | changqi.liu@sdsu.edu
Participating Faculty
Ramona Perez
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Professor of Anthropology
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Director, Center for Latin American Studies
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Indigenous and migrant food cultures, health, gender, nutrition, & lead poisoning
AL-377 | perez@sdsu.edu
Participating Faculty
Amy Quandt
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Professor of Geography
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Director/Advisor, Urban Studies and Food Studies Programs
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Community food security, food and place, food justice, immigrant food practices, & alternative food practices
Storm Hall 306C | aquandt@sdsu.edu
Participating Faculty
John Love
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Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
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Director, Environmental Sciences Program
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Protein design & engineering
CSL 339A | jlove@sdsu.edu
Participating Faculty
Trent Biggs
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Professor of Geography.
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Director, Biggs Watershed Science Lab
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The impacts of land use on hydrology, water quality, & sediment
Participating Faculty
David Lipson
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Professor of Biology.
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Soil microbial ecology, plant-microbe interactions, cycling of carbon and nitrogen, & life in cold environments.
Physical Science 241A-C | dlipson@sdsu.edu
Participating Faculty
Iana A. Castro
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Zahn Professor of Creativity and Innovation
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Professor of Marketing
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Co-Founder and Executive Director, BrightSide Produce
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Reducing food insecurity through increasing healthy food access and strengthening local food systems.
SSE 3120 | iana.castro@sdsu.edu
Program Manager
Kristofer Patrón-Soberano
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Environmental economist with experience in US-Mexico cross-border cooperation and implementation of projects related to sustainability.
Psychometrician
Gena Sbeglia
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Assistant Professor of Biology.
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Research Interests: Biology Education, Evolution Education, Psychometrics, & STEM Diversity
Advisory Board Member
Stephen Walter
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Professor of Biology.
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Population and community ecology, behavioral ecology, plant-insect interactions, developing alternatives to insecticides in agriculture, & sustainable agriculture