Joshua Lohnes

Josh directs the work of the Food Justice Lab housed at the West Virginia University Center for Resilient Communities and offers support to the work of the Food System Development and Community Economies Labs. He is actively engaged with local, national, and international coalitions that seek to advance the right to food through principles of food sovereignty and food justice. He is passionate about popular education in the Freirean tradition of critical pedagogy and committed to participatory action research that advances more just and sustainable economic systems. Josh is a co-founder of the National RtF CoP.