Milan Shrestha is an Associate Teaching Professor at ASU. His current research interests focus on disaster risks and vulnerability in mountains, urban-rural linkages of land system change, and food and agricultural systems.

Keahey is a development sociologist who studies social justice in food and agriculture, post-authoritarian transitions to sustainability, multi-paradigmatic and participatory methods, and development ethics.

Eric W. Welch is a professor in the School of Public Affairs, director of the Center for Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Studies (C-STEPS) at ASU.

Dr. Hall is a conservation scientist, Assoc. Dean in the College of Global Futures, and award-winning teacher who studies ecosystem resilience and complex interactions between people and nature near protected areas.

Ashok Mishra’s research interests lie in food policy and focuses on the economic performance of global agribusiness as a result of production efficiency, mergers and acquisitions, and volatile commodity prices.

Global nutrition and public health professional dedicated to increasing the impact of research and programming through culturally responsive monitoring, evaluation, and learning.

Estève Giraud oversees all research projects at the Swette Center relating to organic and urban agriculture, policy interventions, food security, food sovereignty and food systems resilience.

Mueller's primary research interest is in quantifying the drivers and consequences of the climate-migration nexus in the developing world.

Sara El-Sayed researches the power of deliciousness and wisdom of Indigenous foodways in addition to leading outreach for the Swette Center's organic farming initiatives in Arizona.