Despite over seventy years of international collaboration, two UN organizations tasked with its amelioration, thousands of NGOs and INGOs, and countless academic experts, we continue to fail, mightily, at efforts to achieve global hunger targets. In this talk, Dr. Michelle Jurkovich, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts – Boston, turns a critical eye to this issue, arguing that academics and practitioners must work together to get on-track with anti-hunger goals.

Dr. Jurkovich is the author of Feeding the Hungry: Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight Against Hunger (Cornell, 2020). She has served as a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, a Visiting Scholar in the Global Food Ethics & Public Policy Program at JHU, and Visiting Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. She worked full-time in the Office of Food for Peace at USAID as an AAAS fellow from 2017-2018. Beginning July 2024, Dr. Jurkovich has been invited to serve as a Policy Advisor for the Office of Global Food Security at the U.S. Department of State.

This event is co-sponsored by the Hopkins Semester in DC program, and will take place in room B230 at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center.