Biography

Courtney Long, PhD, is the Director of the Agricultural and Marketing Resource Center, and Manager of the Food Systems program at Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.
Courtney has worked in food systems since 2010. She seeks to understand the intersectionality of community, food systems, and resilience. With projects and research ranging from scenario planning for preparedness for future disasters, resilient food systems assessments, and place-making through food system development. Much of her work connects to community and organizational assessment and facilitation to understand the underlying aspects of values and purpose in relation to resilience and food system intersections. Long’s research and programming cuts across areas of resilient food systems and impacts from COVID and natural disasters. Specific emphasis has included understanding place-based community capacity for responding to disasters; population support for local farm and food businesses; and Land Grant Universities’ roles in supporting efforts for resilient food systems.