Brandi Janssen, PHD

Office: S329 CPHB

Brandi joined I-CASH as Director in May of 2014. She grew up on a beef cattle farm in the Missouri Ozarks and came to Iowa to pursue her higher education. She earned a BA from Grinnell College, and an MA and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Iowa where her research examined the production and marketing strategies of direct market farmers in eastern Iowa.  She is a Clinical Associate Professor in the department of Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Iowa, past Editor-in-Chief of Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, and author of Making Local Food Work:  The Challenges and Opportunities of Today's Small Farmers.