Historical Framings for the Right to Food in Los Angeles County
This project will examine how the history of the internationally recognized right to food can be applied to support local community gardens and urban agriculture initiatives throughout Los Angeles.
With support from Professor Soraya Cadarevian and Professor Robin Derby
Project Participant Bios
Kyle Winterboer is a 2022 Master of Public Policy graduate from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, a recipient of sustainability and food studies graduate certificates, and alumnus of the National Science Foundation’s INFEWS research traineeship at UCLA. Building from his roots growing up on an Iowan farm and time as a musician in Los Angeles, Kyle strives to bridge the urban and rural divides that often form in policy conversations. While partnering with LCHP, Kyle is exploring Los Angeles’s diverse agricultural history to find innovative solutions to food insecurity, ultimately in support of a more equitable future based on local and community centered systems.
Michael T. Roberts is the founding Executive Director of the Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law. Roberts is a thought leader in a broad range of legal and policy issues from farm to fork in local, national, and global food supply systems. He is advising this project having recently led a UCLA travel study program through Italy detailing the interplay between international food law and public-private regulatory approaches in the world food supply chain.
