Assistant Director for Community Engaged Research
Dr Nicole Kennard is research faculty at Georgia Tech and serves as the Assistant Director for Community-Engaged Research at their Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems. She supports faculty across the university in building meaningful and co-creative research partnerships with local communities to address pressing sustainability and societal challenges.
She also leads her own community-engaged food systems research through the ‘Resilient Food Futures Co-Lab’, centering local agriculture and food sovereignty approaches. Her work focuses on uplifting community-based visions for Atlanta’s food system; identifying and analyzing the systemic challenges that stand in the way; and activating teams and networks to bring forward innovative strategies to address them. She holds a PhD in Chemistry and Biosciences from the University of Sheffield (Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures); an MSc in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security from Newcastle University (U.S. Fulbright Scholar); and a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Learn more here: https://foodfutures.research.gatech.edu/