Kristin Reynolds
BIO
Kristin is Chair and Associate Professor of Food Studies at The New School in New York City. Her work examines power structures in the global food system with a focus on creating socially just food systems. This has included research on the social justice implications of urban agriculture in New York City, Paris, and in federal US policy; on rural heritage grain production and food sovereignty, and inequities experienced by immigrant and racialized farmworkers in France. Kristin is an Affiliated Faculty at Yale Center for Environmental Justice; and Associate Research Fellow at the European School of Political and Social Sciences in Lille, France. She has worked with many community-based organizations and farms. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography and M.S. in International Agricultural Development from the University of California, Davis.
At THE NEW INSTITUTE, Kristin is involved in the program The Future of Food: Power and Biodiversity in the Academic Year 2024/25.
PUBLICATIONS
Radical Food Geographies: Power, Knowledge and Resistance, in Bristol University Press, Food & Society: New Directions series, Hammelman, C., Levkoe, C., and Reynolds, K., eds. (Equal authorship), 2024
Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism, in New York City. University of Georgia Press, Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation series, Reynolds, K. and Cohen, 2016
Funding a ‘people’s food justice geography’: supporting community-academic collaborations as fundamental food movement work, in Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111(6): 1705-1720, Block, D. and Reynolds, K. (Equal authorship), 2021
Envisioning Radical Food Geographies: shared learning and praxis through the Food Justice Scholar-Activist/Activist-Scholar Community of Practice, in Human Geography 13(3): 277–292, Reynolds, K., Block, D., Hammelman, C., Jones, B., Gilbert, J., and Herrera, H., 2020
Food sovereignty in the context of structural violence: power, scale, and resolve in the United States of America, in Prunier et al., eds., 2021