Modern Food Systems with Katie Monsen

Katie Monsen is a lecturer in Environmental Studies and the Rachel Carson College at the University of California Santa Cruz, where she earned her PhD. She grew up in Spokane, Washington, attended Pacific Lutheran University, and also lived in Iowa while earning her master's degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She has fallen in love with food systems and ecosystems from the Pacific Northwest to the Midwest to California's Central Coast and beyond, and loves to help others fall in love with them, too. Katie teaches courses in sustainability, freshwater ecology, agroecology, and climate change, making space for her students to get their hands dirty and their feet wet as much as possible. On the side she keeps her own hands busy by cooking, knitting, crocheting, and gardening, spending time outside with her husband and daughters, and reading.To learn more about Holden Village, visit: www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org