FLPC Welcomes Meals Legislation and Coverage Clinic 2022 Summer time Interns

Gita Connolly

Gita is a second-year regulation scholar on the College of Wisconsin Legislation Faculty in Madison. She is devoted to advocating for the fundamental rights of migrants, refugees, LGBTQ+ folks, and minority populations. She is keen about equitable reforms surrounding meals safety, the immigration system, and land justice for minority farmers. Her prior work supported refugee populations and coverage analysis addressing little one welfare methods, youth homelessness, and the empowerment of racial minority college students. She has a level in Asian Research from Cornell College with minors in Worldwide Relations and Inequality Research. In her free time, she loves cooking international vegetarian dishes, gathering Japanese information, studying satire, and enjoying squash.

Max De Faria 

Max De Faria is a Grasp of Meals and Agriculture Legislation and Coverage scholar at Vermont Legislation Faculty. On the regulation faculty, Max works as a Analysis Assistant for the Heart on Agriculture and Meals Methods along with their research. Specializing in meals justice by way of a methods lens, they earned their B.A. in Geography and Spanish with a minor in Political Science from Clark College in Worcester, MA. Previous to Vermont Legislation Faculty, they served as an Emerson Nationwide Starvation Fellow with the Congressional Starvation Heart, advocating for higher inclusion of individuals with lived expertise in analysis, advocacy, and program implementation based mostly on their very own expertise with childhood starvation and poverty. They've additionally labored on city farms and natural farms domestically and internationally. Of their free time, Max enjoys cooking, studying, and studying languages.

Elena Klonoski

Elena is a rising 2L at Boston College Faculty of Legislation. She is keen about constructing a extra sustainable meals system by way of the intersection of meals and regulation. Earlier than regulation faculty, Elena was the Native Meals Program Supervisor for a Cambridge-based nonprofit, the place she labored to advertise native farmers and meals producers by way of the Boston Native Meals Pageant, the Native Meals & Specialty Crop Commerce Present, the Purchase Native MA Cellular App, and extra. Elena additionally has expertise in city agriculture mission improvement, set up, and administration companies within the metro-Atlanta space.

Asha McElroy 

Asha is at the moment pursuing an MPH in Dietary Sciences with a focus in Dietetics on the College of Michigan Faculty of Public Well being.  She grew to become thinking about meals coverage by way of her involvement within the Detroit Meals Coverage Council (DFPC) because the Youth At- Giant Consultant. By means of her involvement on the council,  Asha gained firsthand expertise in participating group members with lived experiences in sharing their information and enter about alternatives to enhance meals entry and diet in grocery shops throughout the Metropolis of Detroit. Asha earned a B.S. in Meals and Dietary Sciences with a focus in Human Vitamin from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State College. She is an aspiring registered dietitian nutritionist trying to specialize within the design and implementation of culturally applicable diet teaching programs whereas persevering with to advocate for meals coverage that advances racial justice in underserved populations.

Jasmine Norris

Jasmine is at the moment pursuing her MPH in Vitamin with a deal with meals coverage at Harvard Faculty of Public Well being. She obtained her credential as a Registered Dietitian and, pursuing her love of group well being and educating youngsters, labored within the public faculty system diet division. This expertise prompted the choice to return to high school for a grasp’s diploma, seeing a fantastic potential for meals help applications to succeed in the inhabitants extra broadly and deeply. Exterior of faculty and work, Jasmine has volunteered as a neighborhood and state coordinator in California for the Ruhi Institute, a group program for non secular schooling. She additionally enjoys artwork, culinary innovations, and Cuban dancing at social occasions at any time when doable.

Gabrielle S. Stewart

Gabrielle is a rising 2L at Lewis & Clark Legislation Faculty in Portland, Oregon. A local Louisianian, she accomplished her undergraduate diploma at Tulane College and have become thinking about meals justice by way of her work coordinating programming for an city farm in New Orleans. Previous to regulation faculty, Gabrielle served as a FoodCorps service member in two elementary faculties in southwest Montana. There, she labored with stakeholders throughout the varsity and the broader group to design the varsity’s first backyard program, and join college students to wholesome meals by way of cooking and diet classes within the classroom. At Lewis & Clark, Gabrielle is a member of the Northwest Environmental Protection Heart’s Clear Water and Meals & Agriculture mission teams. By means of her work with NEDC, she is ready to conduct analysis for ongoing litigation and contribute to official feedback on urgent environmental coverage points within the Pacific Northwest.