The Team
Who We Are
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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.
Lluvia Flores-Renteria
Program Director
Associate Professor of Biology
Director, Binational Studies Program
Evolutionary ecology, forestry, ethnobotany, plant evolution, hybridization
Pascale
Joassart-Marcelli
Co-project Director
Professor of Geography
Director/Advisor, Urban Studies and Food Studies Programs
Community food security, food and place, food justice, immigrant food practices, alternative food practices
Storm Hall 309B
Changqi Lui
Co-project Director
Associate Professor of Food Science
Food allergen, nutritional and physicochemical properties of alternative proteins
ENS 308
Ramona Perez
Co-project Director
Professor of Anthropology
Director, Center for Latin American Studies
Indigenous and migrant food cultures, health, gender, nutrition, lead poisoning
AL-377
Amy Quandt
Co-project Director
Associate Professor of Geography.
Agroforestry, agriculture, mobile phone technologies, community-based conservation, climate change adaptation, and social-ecological resilience.
Storm Hall 306C
John Love
Co-project Director
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Director, Environmental Sciences Program
Protein design and engineering
CSL 339A
Trent Biggs
Co-project Director
Professor of Geography.
Director, Biggs Watershed Science Lab
The impacts of land use on hydrology, water quality, and sediment
tbiggs@sdsu.edu
Storm Hall 305C
David Lipson
Co-project Director
Professor of Biology.
Soil microbial ecology, plant-microbe interactions, cycling of carbon and nitrogen and life in cold environments.
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Physical Science 241A-C
Iana A. Castro
Co-Project Director
Zahn Professor of Creativity and Innovation
Professor of Marketing
Co-Founder and Executive Director, BrightSide Produce
Reducing food insecurity through increasing healthy food access and strengthening local food systems.
SSE 3120
Project Manager
Environmental economist with experience in US-Mexico cross-border cooperation and implementation of projects related to sustainability.
Storm Hall 323
Gena Sbeglia
Psychometrician
Assistant Professor of Biology.
Research Interests: Biology Education, Evolution Education, Psychometrics, STEM Diversity
Life Sciences Room 271
Stephen Walter
Advisory Board member
Professor of Biology.
Population and community ecology, behavioral ecology, plant-insect interactions, developing alternatives to insecticides in agriculture, sustainable agriculture.
Physical Sciences 129
