My graduate research at New York University explored how LGBTQA+ and intersectional communities are often overlooked in mainstream food media, and in response to that, how to build community for queer/trans folks in food communities.

Building community, taking part in education discourse, and studying queer and intersectional individuals doing the work in queer food is my passion. In 2020, I co-founded the Queer Food Foundation, a platform and resource for LGBTQ+ individuals in the food industry. In 2024, I was honored to speak at Boston University’s Queer Food Conference on a panel titled “Teaching Queer Food,” which laid out an extensive curriculum for future food studies courses. This marked the inception of a group of academics called Pantry Collective, where we explore the role queer food organizations, specifically intersectional organizations, play at a national level in our food system through a transdisciplinary lens. Our first project, Pantry Magazine, a queer food journal that explores culture, food systems, and community, was unveiled at the Association for the Study of Food and Society in June 2025 and will be released in 2026.

Most recently, I was published in Tasting Education: On Taste, Identity, and Resistance in Food Justice Movements.

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