Meet the Team

Dr. Sarah-Louise Ruder is a Research Associate at the Food and Agriculture Institute (FAI) at the University of the Fraser Valley, where she is a Co-Investigator and Co-Lead for The Social Implications of Agri-Genomics project. She completed a PhD at the University of British Columbia’s Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability and a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Ottawa’s School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies. Her research explores transitions to more sustainable, food secure, and just food systems and the politics of novel agri-food technologies. She employs critical, reflexive, and intersectional feminist approaches across her research, writing, teaching, and activism.