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Emily Loveland, MSW, PhD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
California State University at San Bernardino
West Hartford, CT, United States

Emily’s current research interests address a human right to adequate food, specifically analyzing the federal government’s predominant policy response to hunger, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Inspired by over a decade working in public service, Emily seeks to explore the novel area of U.S. social welfare policy from a human rights lens. Using primarily qualitative approaches to research, Emily engages directly with communities to examine how the SNAP program administration, formerly known as food stamps, and interactions with government caseworkers influences a person’s decision whether or not to use government benefits. Her work seeks to explore, directly from the people who are impacted, what policy options would best serve those who experience food and/or economic insecurity. Emily believes that too often, policy responses are shaped by high-ranking elected officials and government bureaucrats, without any input from individuals who policies are intended to impact. Emily has used document analysis of SNAP federal regulations and in-depth semi-structured interviews with individuals who experience food and/or economic insecurity to highlight how the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program fails to provide a right to adequate food in the United States.

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