Feminist scholar and food sovereignty advocate, Dr. Jeanne Firth has been working with the VISIONS model since 2013, first as a client on the founding staff team of Grow Dat Youth Farm in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Firth received a B.S.S in Peace and Conflict Studies from Cornell College, an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalization from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD in Human Geography and the Environment also from the LSE. A white, working-class woman who grew up in Kansas City, Jeanne comes from a family with farming roots on the Flint Hills Tallgrass Prairie. She holds a lifelong dedication to place-based food justice and food sovereignty work. As a social scientist and a facilitator, she believes that how we learn is of equal importance to what we learn. Her new book about philanthropy and humanitarianism "Feeding New Orleans: Celebrity Chefs and Re-imaginging Food Justice" is published by UNC Press: Chapel Hill.