{"id":65954,"date":"2017-09-21T09:18:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T19:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=65954"},"modified":"2020-01-15T13:53:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T23:53:25","slug":"miles-joins-food-policy-leadership-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/09\/21\/miles-joins-food-policy-leadership-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Albie Miles joins the Food Policy Leadership Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Albie Miles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Albie Miles<\/strong>, University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> West Oʻahu<\/span><\/a> assistant professor of\u00a0sustainable community food systems<\/a>, has been invited to join the 2017–2018 inaugural\u00a0Food Policy Leadership Institute<\/a>\u00a0at George Washington University in Washington, DC<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n

As a graduate fellow in the program, Miles will travel to George Washington University during the summer of 2018. There he will study U.S. federal and state-level food and agriculture policy with the objective of using this training to advance state and federal legislation in support of ecological sustainability, equity and human health.<\/p>\n

The George Washington Food Policy Institute is led by\u00a0Kathleen Merrigan<\/a>, former U.S. Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture during the Obama Administration. In 2010, Merrigan was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by\u00a0Time<\/em>\u00a0magazine.<\/p>\n

Food Policy Institute’s objectives are to develop a cadre of leaders who bring new voices to the table with sophisticated knowledge of how to advance food and agriculture policy in the public interest.<\/p>\n

—From E Kamakani Hou<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

—By Greg Wiles<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span> Assistant Professor Albie Miles will travel to George Washington University to study U.S. federal and state level food and agriculture policy in support of sustainability, equity and human health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[906,598,861,59],"class_list":["post-65954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-e-kamakani-hou","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-sustainable-community-food-systems","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t