Dr. Kareem Usher is an Assistant Professor in City and Regional Planning at The Ohio State University. His research interests focus on urban food systems and engages this topic through food access, social justice, regional governance and community economic development. Dr. Usher’s work involves utilising mixed-methods and community-based participatory research methodologies to explore perceived as well as objective measures of access to healthy food of food-insecure families in low-access (‘food gap’) communities. His research also extends to the nation of Belize where he investigates urban agriculture and greenspace as methods of climate change mitigation and resiliency.