Kate Clancy
Food Systems Consultant
Kate began working with the Center for a Livable Future in YEAR as a food systems consultant and visiting scholar. She is affiliated with Tufts University Friedman School and the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture.
She earned her doctorate in Nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley. She has held full-time and sabbatical positions at Cornell, Syracuse, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
Kate has held positions at a federal government agency and several nonprofits, and she has served on a number of boards. She developed a graduate course on food systems in 1982 and since then has published, taught, spoken, and consulted widely on alternative agricultures, food systems, and food policy with government agencies, universities, and nonprofits around the country. She is a co-founder of the Agriculture of the Middle Initiative and a co-author with Kathy Ruhf of A Regional Imperative.
Kate’s current interests include the application of systems thinking to food systems research, the development of regional food systems, and the interdisciplinary research and practices needed to advance agriculture and food systems policy as they relate to public health and climate change.