Tasting the “Future of Food” on a Bay-Area Cellular Agriculture Tour

Sarah-Louise Ruder is a PhD candidate and public scholar at the University of British Columbia’s Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, and a researcher at the University of the Fraser Valley’s Food and Agriculture Institute. She is an environmental social scientist studying food systems and the politics of novel technologies.

Evan Bowness Evan Bowness is a critical environmental social scientist and assistant professor of Community Food Systems at the Trent School of the Environment where he hosts the Towards Equity in Sustainability Transitions (“TEST”) Lab. He is a Research Associate at University of the Fraser Valley’s Food and Agriculture Institute and has a PhD from the University of British Columbia.

Angela McIntyre is a research associate and co-director at Simon Fraser University Centre for Collaborative Action on Indigenous Health Governance.

Atlanta Grant is an Iroquois woman with mixed Huron-Wendat and German ancestry, originally from the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Ojibwe, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples. Her master’s research at the University of British Columbia focuses on the cultural resurgence of Indigenous food-cycling practices (the careful and intentional practices that surround consumption of animals and plants) as the reinstatement of Indigenous natural law.

Lenore Newman is the Food and Agriculture Institute Director at the University of the Fraser Valley, where she specializes in agricultural innovation and policy. Her most recent book, Dinner on Mars (co-authored with Dr. Evan Fraser), was published in 2022 by ECW Press. She holds a PhD in environmental studies from York University.