A Menu for Change: Transforming the Food System

Saru Jayaraman

Jayaraman is the co-founder and co-director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United) and director of the Food Labor Research Center at Berkeley. After 9/11, together with displaced World Trade Center workers, she co-founded ROC in New York, which has organized restaurant workers …

Jennifer Sowerwine

Sowerwine is a research and outreach specialist in Berkeley’s department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. She holds a Ph.D. in wildland resource science from Berkeley (2004) and a B.A. in geography/ecosystems from UCLA (1991). Her research interests include building equitable, econ…

Hilary Hoynes

Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities

Hilary Hoynes is a professor of public policy and economics and holds the Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities at the University of California, Berkeley where she also co-directs the Berkeley Oppor…

Karen Sokal-Gutierrez

Sokal-Gutierrez M.P.H. ’88 is a clinical professor at Berkeley’s School of Public Health and the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program where she teaches medical students, public health graduate students, and undergraduates. She is a physician trained in pediatrics, preventive medicine, and public …

Kristine Madsen

Madsen is an associate professor in the School of Public Health and the UC Berkeley-UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, American Heart Association, and other agencies, Madsen works to identify programs and poli…

Philip B. Stark

Professor, Statistics

Philip B. Stark is a professor of statistics at Berkeley whose research centers on inference (inverse) problems, especially confidence procedures tailored for specific goals. Applications include the Big Bang, causal inference, the U.S. census, climate modeling, earthquake pre…

Darin Jensen

Jensen has been a cartographer since the last century. He has worked as a data visualization analyst for the University of California Office of the President since 2015 and founded Guerrilla Cartography in 2012. Jensen holds a B.A. in geography from  Berkeley and an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction fr…