Marion Nestle is the emerita Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at New York University. She also holds an appointment as visiting professor in the Cornell Division of Nutritional Sciences. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Nestle has received many awards and honors, among them the Bard College Prison Initiative’s John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service, the National Public Health Hero award from the UC Berkeley School Of Public Health, the James Beard Foundation Leadership Award, the Innovator of the Year Award from the United States Healthful Food Council, she was named Grande Dame by Les Dames d’Escoffier, the International Association of Culinary Professionals Trailblazer Award, the Changemaker Award from the Food Policy Center at Hunter College and Edinburgh Medal. She has been awarded Honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Transylvania University in Kentucky and from CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College. Dr. Nestle also appears frequently in documentary films, among them
SuperSize Me!,
A Place at the Table,
Fed Up,
El Susto, and
Code Blue.
Dr. Nestle blogs daily (almost) at
www.foodpolitics.com.
