With a signature federal agriculture bill awaiting renewal, Carly Griffith Hotvedt is getting to put her interests in agriculture, public policy and law to use. After five years with the organization, Griffith Hotvedt was announced in November as executive director of the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Institute. IFAI is a self-funded agriculture policy and legal research think tank housed at the University of Arkansas’ College of Law.
“It’s all the things I want to do wrapped into one,” she said. “I’m really excited I get to use all of my degrees every day — something I never thought I’d get to do after I got my law degree. “I feel really lucky to get to be here.
” The organization’s staff regularly collaborates with tribes and intertribal organizations across the country to address questions related to food sovereignty, or the right to determine their own access to healthy, culturally appropriate food. People are also reading..
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