Priya Fielding-Singh
Nonresident Fellow, Global Food and Agriculture
About Priya Fielding-Singh
Dr. Priya Fielding-Singh is a sociologist and Senior Manager of Research and Education at the Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Foundation. Her research and writing examine issues of economic, gender and racial justice, with a focus on food and nutrition equity alongside maternal and child health. Central to her research program has been the use of mixed methods to advance knowledge of both the structural and contextual factors that fuel health disparities in the United States. Her first book, How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America (Little Brown, Spark 2021) draws on years of ethnographic field research she conducted on families' diets in the San Francisco Bay Area to reveal new pathways through which social and environmental factors drive disparities in diet, hunger, and diet-related disease. Dr. Fielding-Singh holds a BS in Education from Northwestern University, MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Bremen, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship as a National Institutes of Health Scholar at the Stanford University School of Medicine and has served as an external consultant to organizations such as World Central Kitchen and Boston's Children's Hospital.
