Loka Ashwood profiled for Grow Magazine
Loka Ashwood, professor of community and environmental sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was recently profiled for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’s Grow Magazine. In the piece, Ashwood discussed her upbringing in rural Illinois and how it shaped her research and career path, with a focus on her current Lost Rural Home project. She also discussed her PhD work, as she graduated with her doctorate from UW-Madison in 2015, and how that work eventually led to the creation of a an agribusiness database. She also mentioned various collaborators and their importance to her work. Ashwood was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2024, and her published books include “For-Profit Democracy: Why the Government is Losing the Trust of Rural America” and “Empty Fields, Empty Promises: A State-by-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm.”