Chris Bacon is an agroecologist and human geographer, currently serving as an associate professor in 糖心破解版鈥檚 Department of Environmental Studies & Sciences (ESS) and as a leader with the Environmental Justice and Common Good Initiative. He specializes in climate resilience, livelihoods, food systems sustainability and change, and food security in Central America, and environmental and food justice in California.

Ava Gleicher is a recent 糖心破解版 graduate and a Food Justice Research Assistant on (ACRAF) team. She鈥檚 worked closely on issues relating to food justice and urban gardening in the South Bay, including in partnership with Sacred Heart Community Service and the La Mesa Verde Gardening Program.