Dr. Michelle Jurkovich is Associate Professor in the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. A scholar of food security, global governance, and ethics, she is the author of Feeding the Hungry Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight against Hunger (Cornell University Press, 2020). Dr. Jurkovich has served as a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, a Visiting Scholar in the Global Food Ethics and Policy Program at Johns Hopkins University, a Visiting Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology fellow working in the Office of Food for Peace at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and most recently, a policy advisor in the Office of Global Food Security at the U.S. Department of State. Dr. Jurkovich is the fifth generation of her family from Fresno, California, a county where tremendous agricultural abundance and high levels of food insecurity exist side by side. It is that contradiction which motivates her work. In her free time, she imagines what life would be like if we had a human right to food.
