Alice Baldwin-Jones: Food and Diversity

Ms. Baldwin-Jones will speak about how what we eat and how we prepare it expresses our different cultures and ethnic diversity.
Alice Baldwin-Jones, PhD, is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Social Science Department at LaGuardia Community College, Long Island, NY. Her research has focused on social justice issues around access and equity to food, education (including nutrition education), land rights, health disparity, and social stratification of the African Diaspora in Belize, Cuba, Jamaica, and the United States; on the indigenous population in Chiapas, Mexico. Included in the list of courses she teaches is Food, Culture and Health, The Anthropology of Food, and most recently, Food and Society in the Health and Nutrition Sciences Department at Montclair University. She is also a member of South Orange Baha’i Community.