Joan Dye Gussow, is a serious food producer, a writer, and officially a retiree from Teachers College, Columbia University where she is Mary Swartz Rose Professor Emerita, former chair of the Nutrition Education Program, and where until this fall she taught her course on nutritional ecology every year.
She has served on and chaired the boards of many organizations, but currently serves only on the boards of Just Food, the Sustainability Fund, and the Frontera Farmer Foundation.
A long time organic mini-farmer, Gussow now lives, writes, and grows all her own organic produce on the west bank of the Hudson River.
