Rachel Kelly

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Senior Resource and Research Development Specialist
Center for Regional Food Systems

Rachel has worked as an Academic Specialist at the Center for Regional Food Systems since 2016. In 2024, Rachel was promoted to Senior Academic Specialist given her outreach impact and contributions to the university’s community of scholarship. Rachel’s roles have included working on the Michigan Good Food Initiative, including planning the 2018 Michigan Good Food Summit and supporting the updated 2020 Michigan Good Food Charter. She has also provided ongoing support for the Michigan Local Food Council Network and the Michigan Farm to Early Care and Education Network.

Rachel currently leads the development and maintenance of the Salesforce-based data collection platform for the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center. She began co-leading the update of An Annotated Bibliography on Structural Racism Present in the U.S. Food System in 2017 and has been solely leading the project since 2020. Now in its eleventh edition, Rachel is coordinating two upcoming synthesis papers that will provide additional context and insight into this crucial publication. Rachel has a M.S. in Community Sustainability from Michigan State University.