Chris Bacon is an agroecologist and human geographer, currently serving as an associate professor in Santa Clara University’s Department of Environmental Studies & Sciences (ESS) and as a leader with the Environmental Justice and Common Good Initiative. He specializes in climate resilience, livelihoods, food systems sustainability and change, and food security in Central America, and environmental and food justice in California. 

Ava Gleicher is a recent SCU graduate and a Food Justice Research Assistant on SCU’s Agroecology, Climate Resilience and Food Justice Lab (ACRAF) team. She’s worked closely on issues relating to food justice and urban gardening in the South Bay, including in partnership with Sacred Heart Community Service and the La Mesa Verde Gardening Program.