Dr. Kourtney Collum (she/her) is the Partridge Chair in Food and Sustainable Agriculture Systems and Associate Dean of Faculty at College of the Atlantic (COA). Kourtney teaches a range of courses that examine ways of transforming food systems to achieve better health, equity, justice, and sovereignty for the humans and other-than-human beings entangled in those systems. Kourtney holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology & Environmental Policy and an M.S. in Forest Resources from the University of Maine, Orono. She has conducted research with farmers, beekeepers, and maple syrup producers across Maine and Maritime Canada to better understand human-environment interactions within agriculture, particularly the ways in which social and political conditions influence on-farm practices. Kourtney serves on the board of the Bar Harbor Food Pantry, is a member of the MDI Food Access Project and the Hancock County Food Security Network, and serves on the advisory council for the Downeast Restorative Harvest Project. Kourtney’s most recent work focuses on addressing the growing rate of hunger among college students across the United States, including at COA.