Kevin Cody is Senior Program Manager for Food EDU and Good Food Fellows at the American Heart Association. As an educator, Kevin’s work is inspired by commitments to improve farmer livelihoods and food system sustainability through innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning. In addition to teaching courses for undergraduate and graduate students on topics ranging from organic horticulture to sustainable development, his work with non-profit organizations includes promoting supply chain integration in local food systems and developing pathways to generate and sustain beginning farmers.
Prior to his role with the American Heart Association, Kevin served as the Hoch Cunningham Professor of the Practice in Food Systems at Tufts University, teaching courses on agroecology and food systems that integrated his work training new and beginning farmers with New Entry Sustainable Farming Project. Previously, as a faculty member in Environmental and Sustainability Studies at the University of Northern Colorado, he developed experiential and community-engaged courses on food systems and managed the university’s student farm program.
Kevin received his PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he examined the internationalization of alternative food networks and barriers to the long-term viability of beginning farmers.