Maggie Meyer

Maggie Meyer is a creative and scholar who is passionate about the intersection of community, capitalism, agriculture, and media in the United States. She approaches this work through storytelling and data visualization methods that take the form of scholarly research, writing, and creative transmedia projects. She earned her BA in Race and Ethnic Studies at St. Olaf College with a focus in forced migration and has a professional background in theatrical lighting design.

 

Currently, Maggie is an MA in Media Studies student at The New School. Here, she has been examining the role of food as a tangible media that both represents the unsustainable and frequently violent nature of the United States’s food system, as well as food’s power as a tool of activism. Maggie is also the Academic Food Writing Editor for the Inquisitive Eater, The New School’s Food Literary Magazine.