Description: Nina F. Ichikawa Is A Writer, Researcher, Speaker And Policy Analyst, Dedicated To Making Good Food Accessible, Interesting And Culturally Appropriate.
Nina F. Ichikawa is a writer, researcher, speaker and policy analyst, dedicated to making good food accessible, interesting and culturally appropriate.
Nina F. Ichikawa is the Executive Director for the Berkeley Food Institute , an interdisciplinary research and action center on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. Nina previously served on the USDA’s “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food” initiative and was a Food and Community Fellow for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy from 2011-2013, where she launched AAPIFoodAction.org , the nation’s first food policy platform for Asian Americans and Pacific Islander voters.
Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Civil Eats, Grist, Al-Jazeera America, NBC Asian America, Amerasia Journal, Rafu Shimpo and the Nichi Bei Times. In 2009 she launched the Food and Agriculture section for Hyphen magazine , based in San Francisco. Her writings on Asian American farmers and retailers were published in Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader (NYU Press: 2013).