Jennifer Wilkins is a Senior Extension Associate in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University where her work has focused her work since 1993 on the linkages between human, environmental, and community health through sustainable food systems. Jennifer received her BS degree in 1978 from Huxley College of Environmental Studies, Western Washington University, her MS degree in 1981 from Teachers College, Columbia University, and her Ph.D. in 1991 from Washington State University, in Nutrition and Consumer Economics. Shortly after joining the Cornell faculty Jennifer conceptualized and developed the first regional food guide in the United States Ð the Northeast Regional Food Guide. This food guide promotes health, sustainability, and local food systems. She was a Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellow from 2004 to 2006 during which time her work appeared in the media including an op-ed in the New York Times and she developed a newspaper column, The Food Citizen which appears each month in the Albany Times Union. She directs the Cornell Farm to School Program - for which she received a Dannon Institute Award for Excellence in Community Nutrition in 2003 - and the FarmersÕ Market Nutrition Program. She served as president of Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society from 2003-2004, and served on the board of Directors for the Society for Nutrition Education from 1994-97. She is the 2004 recipient of the Environmental Nutrition Award from the Hunger and Environmental Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group within the American Dietetic Association. She recently joined the Chefs Collaborative Board of Overseers and is a guest lecturer at the Universitˆ di Scienze Gastronomiche (University of Gastronomic Sciences) established by Slow Food in Pollenzo, Italy.