My research interests are food inequality; health; quantitative methods; and race, class, and gender. Currently, I study the accessibility of community gardens across the United States and their potential to alleviate food insecurity and food desert conditions among different demographics.

More broadly, I'm interested in how race, class, and gender shape local food environments and who has access to healthy food, with a particular focus on improving food security and diet-related health. My research emphasizes the importance of local food environments for individual food access, but also speaks to the need to dismantle broader systems of inequality within the global food system.

Web: katielbutterfield.org

Email: kbutterfield@ucmerced.edu

Disciplines

• Sociology
• Health Sciences

Affiliation

University of California, Merced