EP #151 - 10.19.2020 - COVID-19, Food, and Agriculture

Today we will talk about agriculture, farmworkers, and COVID-19 with Jayson Lusk and Alexis Guild.

Alexis Guild has been with Farmworker Justice since 2011. In her role as Director of Health Policy and Programs, she coordinates FJ’s health promotion projects and health policy advocacy. She works with advocacy organizations, community/migrant health centers, farmworker community-based organizations, and legal services organizations to ensure health care access for farmworkers and their families across the United States. Alexis co-authored “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Implementation and Impact of the Affordable Care Act in U.S. Farmworker Communities” published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (2016); and “The Neighbors who Feed Us: Farmworkers and Government Policy – Challenges and Solutions” published in the Harvard Law and Policy Review (2018).

Jayson Lusk is a food and agricultural economist who studies what we eat and why we eat it. Since 2000, I’ve published more than 240 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals on a wide assortment of topics ranging from the economics of animal welfare to consumer preferences for genetically modified food to the impacts of new technologies and policies on livestock and meat markets to analyzing the merits of new survey and experimental approaches eliciting consumer preferences. He currently serves as Distinguished Professor and Head of the Agricultural Economics Department at Purdue University.  He received a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Kansas State University in 2000.