GIGI BERARDI is a professor at Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment in Bellingham, Washington. In addition to teaching food and geography classes in the United States, Mexico, and Europe, she currently homesteads part time 25 acres with her family in the San Juan Islands in Washington, where she milks sheep and makes cheese. She maintains a popular food blog.
She has also published in numerous scientific journals such as BioScience, Ethnohistory, Human Ecology Review, Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, and Society and Natural Resources. Her articles and reviews have appeared in newspapers (Anchorage Daily News, Los Angeles Times, The Olympian), and her public radio features (for KSKA, Anchorage, Alaska) have been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists.
A Fulbright scholar, Berardi holds three graduate degrees, including a master’s in dance, which is the basis for her popular book, Finding Balance, and much of her other writing in dance. She is an elected member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
