MICRO-BIO

• Author and professor Darryl Benjamin is passionate about sustainable food and nature, and cares deeply about social justice. His book Farm to Table: The Essential Guide (Chelsea Green), co-written with Chef Lyndon Virkler, was published in October 2...More

  Author and professor Darryl Benjamin is passionate about sustainable food and nature, and cares deeply about social justice. His book Farm to Table: The Essential Guide (Chelsea Green), co-written with Chef Lyndon Virkler, was published in October 2016. Benjamin lectures and blogs on sustainable food systems. He holds an MFA in Writing as well as a Certificate of Leadership in Sustainable Food Systems from the University of Vermont. He is founder of The GMO Breakthrough Education Project, a nonprofit dedicated to transforming global food systems through education. Benjamin teaches in the Online MS in Sustainable Food Systems and Master of Science in Reslient and Sustainable Communities grad programs at Green Mountain College. Benjamin taught writing, marketing, and sustainable food issues at New England Culinary Institute for seven years. Darryl lectures and conducts workshops on sustainable food systems, the Future of Food, and Farm-to- table challenges and solutions. In October 2017 he delivered a workshop at Roma Tre University in Rome, Italy, at the Seventh International Conference on Food Studies.

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EXPERIENCE

• Green Mountain College

  • Professor
  • January 2017 to Present

• University of Vermont

  • Food-Feed Blogger
  • February 2014 to Present

• New England Culinary Institute

  • Professor
  • September 2009 to Present

EDUCATION

• University of Vermont

  • Certificate in Leadership in Sustainable Food Systems
  • June 2016 to July 2016

  Intensive leadership training and field experience in sustainable food systems.

• McGill University

  • BA English Literature
  • September 1971 to June 1977

  World literature concentration, Minors in Psychology and French

Interests

• Farm To Table

• Sustainable Food Systems

• Biotechnology And Food

Links

• The GMO Breakthrough Education Project
• Real Food Seminars