Monique is interested in understanding issues around food security and the global food system. She completed her doctoral dissertation in sociology in December 2009 at The State University of New York, Stony Brook, studying how nations became interested in investing in the biotechnology industry in the 1970s and 1980s. She’s currently working on food security data from the Kamuli District in Uganda. She is on the New Haven Food Policy Council, working on a number of locally based food system projects, including a map of the New Haven food system. Her research concentration is in cultural theory and sociology of technology. Her goal is to situate her work in between academic research and local involvement.