Jenna Shelton is a rising senior at UC Berkeley and will graduate from UC Berkeley in Fall 2016 with a major in Conservation and Resource Studies with a concentration in food access and equity and a minor in Public Policy. She is most passionate about using policy as a tool for creating change and empowering marginalized community. Formerly, she served as Policy Director on the Board of Directors for a 200-member non-profit public benefit corporation. Additionally, she is an active member of the Berkeley Hope Scholars program for independent students and former foster youth and the Disabled Students’ Program. She has also worked on local policy processes as a Food Justice Intern for the Sustainable Economies Law Center and is currently conducting research on the role of the disabled community within agricultural spaces with hopes to use it as a starting point for creating accessible agricultural spaces for people with disabilities. As a Research Fellow with the Haas Institute, she is studying the changing image of land-grant universities.
