Nazyia Dowdy is a junior Comparative Women Studies Major, Food Studies Minor from Kissimmee, Florida. She is passionate about the social science of food and how it relates to gender and class. During Nazyia’s time as a scholar, she has served as Farm Stand Associate with Wholesome Wave Georgia, and a Spelman Berkeley Environmental Scholar.
After Dowdy’s matriculation at Spelman, she plans to obtain a graduate degree that will provide her with the framework to serve marginalized communities through the systems of education and policy.
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“Spelman College's Food Studies Program, the first interdisciplinary food studies program at an Historically Black College and University, engages students in an innovative exploration of food interdisciplinarity and centers its connectivity to the African Diaspora, intersectionality, and food science. It is our hope that our food scholars will find the needed community, scholarship, and professional opportunities through the program to approach some of these pressing global and local food challenges. "