Selected Writing
Predictions Aren’t the Point: Lessons from Forecasting the Pandemic | Institute for the Future
Why We Need More Stories about the Future of Food | California Humanities
My Transcontinental Journey to Explore our Food System | National Geographic
Shedding Light on Structural Violence: Interview with Tassiana Willis | FutureNow Magazine (p. 120)
Interviews & Press
9 Experts Predict What the Future of Food Will Look Like | EatingWell
Designing for Resilient Futures with Biodiversity | Food+Tech Connect
Five Minutes in the Future of Food (video) | Coursera, IFTF Futures Thinking Specialization
Mentor Series: Sarah Smith, on creating multiple food futures | Food Future Co
An Algorithm Is Coming for Your Food | The Ringer
What’s the Destiny of Our Food Supply? We Asked a Food Futurist | Vice Munchies
Can smart kitchen devices actually make you a better cook? | The Washington Post
Here’s what it will be like to eat at restaurants of the future | Business Insider
Why you won’t recognize your supermarket in five years | Epicurious
Recipes are Dead: What the future of cooking might look like | The Washingtnton Post
Future of food? There’s an app for that. How algorithms and the Internet of things might change cooking | AirTalk, NPR
The future of food among many topics discussed at Los Angeles Times Festival of Books | Los Angeles Times
Public Speaking
How to be a Food Futurist: Eating Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis | Stanford Food Institute — Palo Alto, CA — 2019
The Future of Protein panelist | Food Lab at Google —Venice, CA — 2019
The Future of Food Innovation Speech | Retail Council Canada —Toronto, Canada — 2019
Signals-Based Forecasting | Haas School of Business — Berkeley, CA — 2019
The Technology Landscape of Healthy Eating | Culinary Institute of America: Worlds of Healthy Flavors — Napa, CA — 2018
How to be a Food Futurist: Designing Future Food Experiences | Culinary Institute of America: reThink Food — Napa, CA — 2018
Eating Culture, the Anthropology of Food - Guest Lecture — San Jose State University — 2017
Consumers of the Future Keynote (video) | Food Forward, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation — Washington, D.C. — 2017
Artifacts from the Future of Food (video) National Restaurant Association Innovation Summit — Austin, TX — 2017
Food and Beverage 2030 Megatrends | China Dairy Industry Association — Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China — 2017
Future of Food Panelist with Alice Waters, Jonathan Gold, and Mas Masumoto | LA Times Festival of Books — Los Angeles, California — 2016
The Future of Food | Food and Fun Festival — Reykjavik, Iceland — 2016
Artifacts from the Future of Food | FoodInno — Berkeley, CA — 2016
The Future of Eating | Fusion’s Real Future Fair — San Francisco, CA — 2016
Seeds of Disruption: How Technology is Remaking the Future of Food | Expo Milano, U.S. Pavilion — Milan, Italy — 2015