THE CAPSTONE is a celebration of innovation and scholarship centered on creating an equitable and sustainable food system. Through conversations, stories, ideas, and examples, students share their final Capstone projects–an opportunity to lift up their food systems knowledge, individual research, creative problem solving, systems thinking, reflection, and analysis. Join us! Be inspired by hearing how possible it is to create positive food systems change!
featuring Danielle Carson
Focused on the Olympic Peninsula bioregion in Washington State, this project addresses limited local food procurement, affordable food access and limited non-direct marketing opportunities for small and mid-sized producers by developing a participatory value chain coordination model. She creates a Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-oriented data gathering and visualization tool for rural food systems that addresses a multitude of social, logistical, and economic challenges faced by regional food systems in rural settings.
About Danielle Carson
Danielle is driven by her passion for bioregionalism, small farm sustainability, and improving access to high-quality food. As an undergraduate, Danielle studied journalism, anthropology, and Spanish at California State University, Long Beach and spent summers learning and writing in Central and South America. After a brief stint at a Southern California newspaper, she felt called to learn more about agriculture and food systems. While living in Ecuador and working on a few community-based farming projects she realized her passion for foodsheds and using food as a medium to connect with people.
While teaching horticulture and ecology at school gardens in Las Vegas, NV, she decided to pursue a master’s degree in Sustainable Food Systems at Prescott College and throughout her graduate education, focused on rural economic development, agroecology, and food system localization.
The students and faculty of the Prescott College Sustainable Food Systems graduate program bring this podcast to you because we believe in ideas, we believe in knowledge that inspires, and we believe that change is possible!
Join with others who are passionate about the transformative power of food in the work to create equity, opportunity, health and wellbeing, regenerative environments, and sustainability. The M.A. degree in Sustainable Food Systems at Prescott College is an experience that combines a vibrant online learning environment with the skills, support, knowledge, and networks to help you become a leader in the movements to establish food justice, strong regional food economies, sustainable diets and health, food policy, biodiversity, agroecology, and more!
Whether you want to talk to us about a topic in Transformative Food Systems, learn more about our Master's program, or, would like to interview us, we're available to discuss topics related to biodiversity, food justice, sustainable farming practices, soil science and more.
