For a list of projects, presentations, and publications, and a copy of Kimberley Hodgson’s resume, click on the links below.

Projects

Presentations

Publications

Resume/CV

PROJECTS 

• Advisor and Planning Committee Member, Advancing Obesity Solutions through Investments in the Built Environment and Transportation | The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2017-present
• Growing Food Connections | University at Buffalo with support from the United States Department of Agriculture, NIFA/AFRI Food Systems Program, 2012 to present
• North Shore Food Action Plan Advisor | North Shore Table Matters and Vancouver Coastal Health, North Vancouver, BC
• ACS CAN Supports Active Transportation Policies and Infrastructure Fact Sheet | American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. 2015
• British Columbia Built Environment & Older Adults Policy Scan | University of British Columbia, Centre for HIP Healthy and Mobility, 2013-2014
• Vacant Property Research Initiative | Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech with support from the Ford Foundation, 2012-2013
• Sustainability Planning Lab | Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech, 2012-2013
• Planning for Food Access | American Planning Association with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Healthy Eating Research*, 2010-2012
• Food Systems Planning: A National Scan & Evaluation of Local Comprehensive & Sustainability Plans in the United States Keynote Presentation | Planning Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems, Recent Municipal and Provincial Initiative in Alberta, Rocky View County Office, Alberta, November 2012
• Vancouver Food Strategy Review | City of Vancouver, British Columbia, Fall 2012
• Delta Community-Based Farm District Plan | Century Group, Summer and Fall 2012
• Cultivating a Healthy Local Food Economy in Douglas County Workshop | City of Lawrence and Douglas County, Kansas, Fall 2012
• Land Use & Food Access Chapter of the Health Equity Playbook | Prevention Institute, Spring 2012
• Urban Agriculture: It’s Not an Oxymoron. Policies for Cultivating City Land and Increasing Access to Local Food | Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, April 2012
• Urban Agriculture and Food Systems Planning Presentation | Denver Regional Council of Governments, March 2012
• Urban Agriculture and Food Systems Planning Audio/Web Conference | American Planning Association, March 2012
• Vice-Chair, STAR Community Index Technical Advisory Committee on Health | ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability

Work completed by Kimberley Hodgson as Senior Research Associate and Manager of the Planning and Community Health Research Center at the American Planning Association:

• Investing in Healthy, Sustainable Places through Urban Agriculture | Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
• Food Policy Councils – Briefing Paper | American Planning Association
• Planning for Public Health | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• National Partnership for Urban Agriculture| U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The Funders Network for Smart Growth & Livable Communities, Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders Network,
  American Planning Association, American Farmland Trust, MetroAg
• Healthy, Sustainable Food System Partnership and Principles | Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, American Nurses Association, American Public Health Association, American Planning Association with support from the WKKellogg Foundation
• Sustainable Food Systems Roundtable | American Planning Association, CS Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems at Michigan State University, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, International City/County Management Association, Local Government Commission, National Association of Counties, National Association of Development Organizations, National Association of Regional Councils, National League of Cities, United States Conference of Mayors
• Healthy Communities Interest Group | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Creating Community-Based Brownfields Redevelopment Strategies | US Environmental Protection Agency
• The Role of Arts and Culture in Planning Practice | Rockefeller Foundation
• Urban Agriculture: Growing Healthy Sustainable Places | US Environmental Protection Agency
• Bridging the Gap | American Planning Association
• Complete Streets: Best Practices and Implementation Strategies | Federal Highway Administration, the National Association of Realtors, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, the Ruth Mott Foundation, and NPLAN
• Planning Healthy Communities Forum | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Healthy Communities Webinar Series | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• National Planning Conference Food System Guide – Minneapolis | American Planning Association
• National Planning Conference Food System Guide – New Orleans | American Planning Association

Work completed by Kimberley Hodgson as Research Assistant in the Department of Urban Affairs & Planning at Virginia Tech:

• Food Systems Planning for Health & Sustainability Short Course | Urban Affairs  & Planning at Virginia Tech
• Compendium of Model Sustainability Practices – Health | City of Alexandria, Virginia
• EcoCity Alexandria | City of Alexandria, Virginia 

Work completed by Kimberley Hodgson as Field Faculty and Extension Agent at Virginia Cooperative Extension:

• New York City Health Disparities Training | FoodChange New York City
• School Wellness Policy | Roanoke County Public Schools
• Roanoke Valley Farm to School Program | Virginia Cooperative Extension

Presentations

• American Planning Association National Planning Conference, May 2017 (New York, NY), “Incentivizing the Sale of Healthy and Local Food”
• American Planning Association National Planning Conference, May 2017 (New York, NY), “Food Systems Planning: Growing Connections and Planning for Health”
• American Planning Association National Planning Conference, May 2017 (New York, NY), “Faces of Food Systems Planning”
• American Planning Association National Planning Conference, April 2015 (Seattle, WA), “Advancing Food Systems Planning and Policy Workshop and Mobile Tour”
• North Shore Planning for Sustainable Food Systems Workshop, Panel Discussion, November 2014 (North Vancouver, BC) “Planning for a healthy, sustainable, community food system”
• American Farmland Trust, October 2014 (Lexington, KY), “Planning for agriculture and food systems: communities that are leading the way”
• S. National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research, Healthy Food Incentives Workshop: Moving the Field Forward, September 2014 (Washington DC), Panel Discussion
• Urban Sustainability Directors Network, May 2014 (Webinar), “Community-Based Food Systems Planning: Promising Practices from Across North America”
• American Planning Association National Planning Conference, April 2014 (Atlanta, GA), “Growing Food Connections: Communities of Innovation”
• American Planning Association National Planning Conference, April 2014 (Atlanta, GA), “Urban Agriculture Programs & Policies: Promising Practices from Across North America”
• American Planning Association National Planning Conference, April 2013 (Chicago, IL), “Building Local Capacity to Promote Food Access”
• Iowa Food Policy Council, March 2013 (Webinar), “Champions of Change: Establishing Healthy Food Access Through Community-Based Food Systems”
• Georgia Food Policy Council, March 2013 (Webinar), “Planning for Food Access & Community Based Food Systems”
• New Partners for Smart Growth, February 2013 (Kansas City, KS), “Food Access Equity: From Policy to Action”
• Planning Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Network, November 2012 (Calgary, AB), “Food Systems Planning: A National Scan & Evaluation of Local Comprehensive & Sustainability Plans in the United States Keynote”
• Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Symposium, April 2012 (Cleveland, OH), “Urban Agriculture: It’s Not an Oxymoron. Policies for Cultivating City Land and Increasing Access to Local Food”
• Denver Regional Council of Governments, March 2012 (Webinar), “Urban Agriculture and Food Systems Planning”
• American Planning Association, Audio/Web Conference, March 2012, “Urban Agriculture and Food Systems Planning”
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Healthy Eating Research Annual Meeting, February 2012 (Austin, TX), “Planning for Food Access”
• Walk21 Symposium, “Comprehensive Planning for Health”, October 2011

• American Planning Association Healthy Communities Webinar Series, Planning for Food Access and the Regional Food System”, April 2011
• American Planning Association National Planning Conference, “Urban Agriculture: Growing Healthy, Sustainable Communities”, April 2011
• American Planning Association Healthy Communities Webinar Series, “Planning and Implementing the Active Community”, February 2011
• Growing Power Farm Conference, “Planners as Allies In the Community Food Movement: in the Past, in the Present, and Prospects for the Future”, September 2010
• Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders Forum, “Growing Healthy, Sustainable Food Systems”, June 2010
• Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization, August 2010 “Food Systems 101: Learning to Create Healthier Communities and Local Economies”, August 2010
• The Funders Network for Smart Growth & Livable Communities, “Planning for Urban Agriculture”, March 2010
• New Partners for Smart Growth, “The Next Big Trend—Sustainability and the Food System”, February 2010
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, State Program Training, “Comprehensive Plans—Improving Community Policies to Support Physical Activity & Healthy Eating”, March 17, 2010
• American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, “Planning for Healthy, Sustainable Food and Water Systems”, November 2009
• American Dietetic Association Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo, “Transforming Food Environments”, October 2009
• Community Food Security Coalition, Urban Agriculture Committee Meeting, “Snapshot of Urban Agriculture & Planning Practice: What are planners doing to promote or support urban agriculture and local food production across North America?”, September 2009
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Weight of the Nation, “Planning for Food Access”, July 2009
• New Partners for Smart Growth, “Food Policy Councils: Catalysts for Integrating Food & Land Use Policy”, February 2009

• Virginia Cooperative Extension, Healthy Futures Presentations, “Healthy Choices”, “Heart Disease & Diabetes”, “Fiber”, and “Physical Activity”, July 2006
• Roanoke County Public Schools, School Board Meeting, “School Wellness Policy”, Roanoke, VA, January 2006
• Roanoke County Public Schools Administration & Staff Retreat, “Dietary Guidelines”, Roanoke, VA, January 2006
• Virginia Dietary Managers of Roanoke, “Superfoods”, Roanoke, VA, September 2005
• Roanoke City Rescue Mission Workshop, “What’s in a Tomato?”, Roanoke, VA, September 2005
• FoodChange Continuing Education Conference, “New York City Health & Food Access Disparities”, New York, NY, Summer 2005

Publications

• Raja, Samina, Jennifer Whittaker, Enjoli Hall, Kimberley Hodgson, Maryam Khojasteh, and Jeanne Leccese. In Press. “Growing Food Connections through Planning: Lessons from the United States.” In Integrating Food into Urban Planning. United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).

• Clark, Jill K.; Freedgood, Julia; Irish, Aiden; Hodgson, Kimberley; and Raja, Samina. 2017. “Fail to Include, Plan to Exclude: Reflections on Local Governments’ Readiness for Building Equitable Community Food Systems.” Special Issue on Planning for Equitable Urban and Regional Food Systems. Built Environment 43 (3):315-327.

• Whittaker, J. and K. Hodgson. Empowering the Community to Lead: Food Systems Planning and Policy in Lawrence and Douglas County, Kansas. In Kimberley Hodgson and Samina Raja (Series Editors), Innovation Deep Dive. Growing Food Connections. 13p. 2017.

• Clark, Jill, Molly Bean Smith, Samina Raja, Scott Loveridge, Julia Freedgood, and Kimberley Hodgson. “Cooperative Extension and Food System Change – Goals, Strategies and Resources.”  Agriculture and Human Values, 2017, vol. 34, issue 2, 301-316.

• Martin, Kara, and K. Hodgson. Moving from Resilient Planning to Implementation: Minnesota’s Region 5 Transforms its Food System. In Kimberley Hodgson and Samina Raja (Series Editors), Innovation Deep Dive. Growing Food Connections. 13p. 2017.

• Dillemuth, Ann, and K. Hodgson. Food Aggregation, Processing, and Distribution. In Kimberley Hodgson and Samina Raja (Series Editors), Planning & Policy Briefs. Growing Food Connections. 9p. 2016.

• Dillemuth, Ann, and K. Hodgson. Incentivizing the Sale of Healthy and Local Food. In Kimberley Hodgson and Samina Raja (Series Editors), Planning & Policy Briefs. Growing Food Connections. 8p. 2016.

• Dillemuth, Ann. Leading the Way: A Legacy of Food Systems Planning and Policy Work in Multnomah County, Oregon. In Kimberley Hodgson and Samina Raja (Series Editors), Exploring Stories of Innovation. Growing Food Connections. 4p. 2016.

• Hodgson, Kimberley, and K. Martin. Building from the Inside Out in Region 5 Minnesota: A Rural Region’s Effort to Build a Resilient Food System. In Kimberley Hodgson and Samina Raja (Series Editors), Exploring Stories of Innovation. Growing Food Connections. 4p. 2016.

• Hodgson, Kimberley, K. Mosher. Private-Public Partnerships: Cornerstone of Food Systems Planning and Policy in Rural Marquette County, Michigan. In Kimberley Hodgson and Samina Raja (Series Editors), Exploring Stories of Innovation. Growing Food Connections Project. 3p. 2016.

• Hodgson, Kimberley, Z. Fodor. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: A Mayor’s Office and Health Department Lead the Way in Municipal Food Policymaking. In Kimberley Hodgson and Samina Raja (Series Editors), Exploring Stories of Innovation. Growing Food Connections Project. 3p. 2016.

• Fodor, Zsuzsi, K. Hodgson. Cleveland, Ohio: A Local Government’s Transition from an Urban Agriculture Focus to a Comprehensive Food Systems Policy Approach. In Kimberley Hodgson and Samina Raja (Series Editors), Exploring Stories of Innovation. Growing Food Connections Project. 3p. 2015.

• Dillemuth, Ann, and K. Hodgson. Local, Healthy Food Procurement Policies. In Kimberley Hodgson and Samina Raja (Series Editors), Planning & Policy Briefs. Growing Food Connections. 5p. 2015.

• Hodgson, Kimberley. “Advancing Local Food Policy in Cabarrus County, North Carolina: Successes and Challenges in a Changing Political Climate.” In Kimberley Hodgson and Samina Raja (Series Editors), Exploring Stories of Innovation. Growing Food Connections Project. 3p. 2015.
• Hodgson, Kimberley, Z. Fodor. “Mayoral Leadership Sparks Lasting Food Systems Policy Change in Minneapolis, Minnesota.” In Kimberley Hodgson and Samina Raja (Series Editors), Exploring Stories of Innovation. Growing Food Connections Project. 3p. 2015.
• Fodor, Zsuzsi, K. Hodgson. 2015. “Healthy Food System in the Heartland: Intergovernmental Cooperation in the City of Lawrence and Douglas County, Kansas Advances Food Policy.” In Kimberley Hodgson and Samina Raja (Series Editors), Exploring Stories of Innovation. Growing Food Connections Project. 3p.
• Whitton, Elizabeth, J. Leccese and K. Hodgson. “Baltimore City, Maryland: A Food in all Policies Approach in a Post-Industrial City.” In Kimberley Hodgson and Samina Raja (Series Editors), Exploring Stories of Innovation. Growing Food Connections Project. 3p. 2015.

• Whitton, Elizabeth, K. Hodgson. Lessons From an Agricultural Preservation Leader: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In Kimberley Hodgson and Samina Raja (Series Editors), Exploring Stories of Innovation. Growing Food Connections Project. 2p. 2015.

• Whitton, Elizabeth, K. Hodgson. 2015. “Championing Food Systems Policy Change in Seattle, Washington.” In Kimberley Hodgson and Samina Raja (Series Editors), Exploring Stories of Innovation. Growing Food Connections Project. 2p.

• Hodgson, Kimberley, Z. Fodor and Maryam Khojasteh. Multi-level Governmental Support Paves the Way for Local Food in Chittenden County, Vermont. In Kimberley Hodgson and Samina Raja (Series Editors), Exploring Stories of Innovation. Growing Food Connections Project. 5p. 2015.

• ACS CAN Supports Active Transportation Policies and Infrastructure Fact Sheet. Public Policy Issue. Active Transportation and Recreation. American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. 2015.

• Hodgson, Kimberley. “Food Access Through Land Use Planning and Policies”. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Division of Community Health. A Practitioner’s Guide for Advancing Health Equity: Community Strategies for Preventing Chronic Disease. Atlanta, GA: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2013.
• Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, Ohio: A Resilient Region’s Responses to Reclaiming Vacant Properties, Virginia Tech, Metropolitan Institute, May 2014
• Philadelphia’s Vacant Property Journey: Fostering Collaborative Alliances with Converging Policy Reforms, Virginia Tech, Metropolitan Institute, September 2013
• Planning for Food Access and Community-Based Food Systems: A National Scan and Evaluation of Local Comprehensive and Sustainability Plans, American Planning Association, November 2012
• Delta Community-Based Farm District Planning Southlands as a Regionally Significant Model for Metro Vancouver, Century Group, October 2012

Completed by Kimberley Hodgson as Senior Research Associate and Manager of the Planning and Community Health Research Center at the American Planning Association:

• Kimberley Hodgson. Investing in Healthy, Sustainable Places through Urban Agriculture. The Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, Fall 2011.
• Christina DiLisio and Kimberley Hodgson. Food Policy Councils: Helping local, regional and state governments address food system challenges. American Planning Association, July 2011.
• Kimberley Hodgson and Kelly Ann Beavers. The Role of the Arts and Culture in Planning Practice. American Planning Association, 2011. 
• Kelly Ann Beavers and Kimberley Hodgson. Community Engagement: How Arts and Cultural Strategies Enhance Community Engagement and Participation. American Planning Association, 2011.
• Jeff Soule, Kimberley Hodgson, and Kelly Ann Beavers. Community Character: How Arts and Cultural Strategies Create, Reinforce, and Enhance Sense of Place. American Planning Association, 2011.
• Kimberley Hodgson, Marcia Caton Campbell, and Martin Bailkey. Urban Agriculture: Growing Healthy, Sustainable Places. American Planning Association, Planning Advisory Service Report Number 563, January 2011.
• Barbara McCann and Suzanne Rynne, ed. Complete Streets: Best Policy and Implementation Practices. American Planning Association, Planning Advisory Service Report Number 559, April 2010.
• Hodgson, KE and Peemoeller, L. QuickNotes: Food Systems Planning. APA 2010.
• Hodgson, KE. Where Food Planning and Health Intersect: Welcome to the Next Big Trend. Planning 2009; August/September: 8-13.

• Hodgson, KE. Virginia Cooperative Extension PUBS, May 2009, “Keep You and Your Family Lean with Lean Protein”.
• Hodgson, KE. Virginia Cooperative Extension PUBS, May 2009, “Vegetables: How Much Do I Need?”.

• Hodgson, KE. Compendium of Model Sustainability Practices, June 2008, “Health”.