About Christine C Caruso

Christine C. Caruso is a graduate of the Environmental Psychology program of the City University of New York Graduate Center, where she concentrated on Food Studies. Dr Caruso’s research focuses on food environments in low-income urban communities, as well as urban health, social justice, gender and sustainability. Her current research examines current and recent historical cultural experiences of discursive productions of “food deserts” across policy, advocacy, scholarship and popular media. She currently resides in Queens, NYC, where she continues to work to expand access to healthy and sustainably sourced foods through the development of Queens’ first mobile cooperative food market.