Author Jennifer Geist Rutledge examines the global social policies behind school lunch programs - both as an entry point for the welfare state into the lives of poor children, as an endpoint for the national agricultural surplus - and explores the intersection between public health, the state and capitalism on a global scale.
Jennifer is author of the new book Feeding the Future: School Lunch Programs as Global Social Policy from Rutgers University Press.
Jennifer Geist Rutledge is an assistant professor of political science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, in New York.