Natalie Rachel Morris

As an American child raised on Dutch-Indonesian food, Natalie Rachel Morris is now a classically trained culinarian with a Masters of Arts in Food Culture and Communications. As a WK Kellogg endowed fellow, she founded the award-winning initiative Good Food Finder and is now the Local Foods Coordinator at Local First Arizona and a professor in the Sustainable Food Systems program at Mesa Community College. She has served on the board for Slow Food Phoenix and currently sits on the committee for the Slow Food Southwest Ark of Taste. She has written for publications such as Edible Phoenix and Gastronomica, and her research has appeared as conservation success stories for the annual Chef's Collaborative conference. Her education and interests in food’s role in shaping our history, culture, and food system have taken her to Belgium, France, Greece, across Italy and Spain, and into Morocco. She lives in the southwestern United States with her husband where she is currently researching her book Beans: A Global History as a part of the Edible Series (Reaktion Books: UK and University of Chicago Press: USA). Follow her journey on Twitter at @nataliermorris and Instagram at @natalierachelmorris.