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About Me
Kami Pothukuchi, Ph.D. is the director of SEED Wayne, a campus-community collaboration dedicated to building sustainable food systems on the campus of Wayne State University and in Detroit neighborhoods by linking to core university functions of teaching, research, engagement and campus operations. Browse www.clas.wayne.edu/seedwayne for more information on SEED Wayne. She is also associate professor of urban planning at Wayne State University. Her research examines the links between food and community and economic development, and the roles public and nonprofit agencies might play to foster these links.
Kami has published on a variety of food planning topics including retail grocery in under-served areas, urban agriculture, and community and regional food planning. The “Community and Regional Food Planning Policy Guide,” co-authored by her, was formally adopted by the American Planning Association in 2007 (browse: http://www.planning.org/policyguides/food.htm).
She serves on the Detroit Food Policy Council, the Detroit Urban Agriculture Work Group, several other local and national committees related to community food planning, and has also served two terms on the governing board of the national Community Food Security Coalition, a national organization that conducts policy advocacy, regional organizing, and public education on community food systems.
- Location:
- United States, Detroit, MI
- Current organization:
- SEED Wayne
- Past organizations:
- wayne state university
- Current role:
- Director
- Gender:
- Female
- My website links:
- SEED Wayne
More About Me
I'm passionate about
getting more people to grow food and buy their food from local growers, and the idea that we can build a food system where everyone has access to good food while also enriching soil and the ecosystem.
An idea worth spreading
Universities have a special responsibility to society and the surrounding region. Given the obesity epidemic today and many communities' lack of access to healthy food, universities should be as concerned with feeding the body as with cultivating the mind. They also need to review their food system footprint (as part of their broader ecological footprint) and play their part in supporting the region's agriculture and local economy.
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