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CUNY: Food Policy Seminar
Food Systems Infrastructure: New York City and Beyond

Date: Wednesday April 25

Time: 12:30 - 2:00 pm

Location: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Jane Jacobs Thesis Room 6304.26

Speakers:

Kubi Ackerman

Columbia University Urban Design Lab

Kubi Ackerman has been conducting design-based research at Urban Design Lab since 2007. At the UDL Kubi has worked on several food systems and urbanization projects, including efforts to curb childhood obesity and assess New York City's regional "foodshed." He is currently managing a project to evaluate the capacity of New York City for urban agriculture. Kubi has also been involved with other projects including the rezoning of 125th Street in Harlem, a study of urban development patterns in the Hudson River Estuary, and designs for park infrastructure to increase physical activity and economic development in northern Manhattan. Previously Kubi taught and worked at the Salvadori Center, City College of New York, developing design and architecture-based curricula for public schools in New York City. Kubi has conducted extensive research into the history of architecture and urban development in Prague, Czech Republic. He is a LEED® Accredited Professional with the United States Green Building Council.

Nina Kahori Fallenbaum

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Fellow

Since 1998, Nina Kahori Fallenbaum has worked in the public and private sector to improve education and access to healthy food for people of all incomes. She served as director of programs for Kids First Oakland and the University of California at Berkeley’s Achievement Award Scholarship Fund, where she launched cooking programs and led outreach efforts to rural, new immigrant, and Asian American communities. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley and Meiji Gakuin University, she entered federal government as a legislative fellow in the U.S. Senate. From 2009-2011, she assisted the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s local and regional food initiatives.

A published author on food, agriculture and Asian American issues, she is currently Food and Agriculture Editor for Hyphen magazine, a print and online magazine profiling the arts and politics of Asian America. She is also a Food and Community Fellow with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She sits on the boards of Tule Lake Committee and Japanese American Women Alumnae of UC Berkeley, philanthropic and educational organizations in California.