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Monica White is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Justice shared between the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Western Michigan University and completed a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in African American Studies at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign.
Her research focuses on communities of color and grassroots organizations advancing sustainable, community-based food systems to address food insecurity and environmental inequities. Central themes include urban agriculture in Detroit as a site of resistance, Black feminist frameworks, and diasporic agricultural activism. She also examines women of color’s roles in redefining relationships with food systems through liberation ecology and cultural preservation.
Dr. White’s work has been supported by the USDA, U.S. Department of State, and multiple university grants. Her international research compares agricultural resistance strategies in Detroit, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Jamaican Maroon communities. She actively contributes to policy through roles like the Food Justice Task Force and testimony before the Michigan House of Representatives.
Key affiliated labs include the Environmental Politics Lab, Applied Population Lab, and Soil Health & Agroecological Living Lab. Her scholarship bridges academia and activism, emphasizing community-driven solutions to systemic inequities in food systems and urban environments.
