Failing Up and Doubling Down with Global Food Security

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Despite over seventy years of international collaboration, two United Nations organizations tasked with its amelioration, thousands of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), and countless academic experts, we continue to fail, mightily, at efforts to achieve global hunger targets. In this talk, Michelle Jurkovich, associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts – Boston, turns a critical eye to this issue, arguing that academics and practitioners must work together to get on-track with anti-hunger goals.

Jurkovich is the author of Feeding the Hungry: Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight Against Hunger (Cornell, 2020). She has served as a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, a visiting scholar in the Global Food Ethics & Public Policy Program at Johns Hopkins, and a visiting fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. She worked full-time in the Office of Food for Peace at U.S. Agency for International Development as an AAAS fellow from 2017 to 2018. Beginning July 2024, Jurkovich has been invited to serve as a policy advisor for the Office of Global Food Security at the U.S. Department of State.

This event is co-sponsored by the Hopkins Semester in DC program. A young D.C. alumni networking session and alumni panel to follow