As a cross-disciplinary thinker, she offers a One Health approach to food studies through herr expertise in city and regional planning (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) and veterinary medicine (VMD, University of Pennsylvania). The Urban Planning background gives her research a focus on place-based policies and interventions. The veterinary training underpins a whole systems approach, considering health shared among humans, animals and the environment. Food is at the crux of these systems. As such, her research is primarily focused on integrating agricultural ecosystems services with urban areas.