Kim Niewolny is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Leadership, & Community Education and serves as founding Director of the Virginia Tech Center for Food Systems and Community Transformation. Over the past 16 years, her research, teaching, and extension programming has emphasized the role of power and equity in food systems–based community development from an interdisciplinary and critical social theory perspective. As a scholar-practitioner, Kim’s work focuses on the interface of sustainable food systems and the practice and politics of community food work from classroom to community spaces at the local, regional, and global levels. Specially, her scholarly interests include cultural and participatory community development; critical pedagogy and critical praxis; action research; multi-sector collaborations for sustainable food systems; food narratives through storytelling and narrative inquiry, regional food systems, new agrarian sustainability, and the intersection of technology, farm labor, and disability. Kim has previously served as President of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society and has been a board member of the Virginia Food Systems Council since 2018.