Geraldine Moreno, is a Professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Oregon. She specializes in nutritional anthropology, biological anthropology, human ecology, and gender issues. She is actively engaged in research on food insecurity and child growth. Geraldine has worked in Thailand, Laos, Bolivia, Indonesia and the U.S. Her research and teaching interests include hunger and food security, wild food resources, child growth and nutritional status, HIV/AIDS research and food and culture. She has been the recipient of awards from the Fulbright Hayes Senior Scholar Program, National Geographic Society, The Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. Geraldine's longstanding concern about small farmers and the food system led her to participate in several local CSA farms. She has served the Design Team that has worked on the development of the Lane County Food Policy Council. Recently she has been involved in the development of baseline data evaluating the incidence of obesity among school children in Lane County.