Darina Allen Interviews

Darina Allen speaks with Kathryn Lynch Underwood – a city planner with the Detroit City Council Legislative Policy Division. She has been a planner for over 20 years, with areas of expertise including land use policy, urban food systems, zoning, and sustainable redevelopment policy. Her current work includes formulating urban agriculture codes and policies for the City of Detroit. Kathryn also helped create the Detroit Food Security Policy, sits on the Detroit Food Policy Council, and is a member of the Michigan Association of Planning Food Systems Policy Planning Committee. She is a founding member of Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice and the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network. Kathryn was a presenter at the 1st Global Summit on Metropolitan Agriculture in Rotterdam, The Netherlands in September 2010 and has participated in U.S. study groups in both The Netherlands and Italy related to agriculture and food systems. She represented Slow Food USA as a delegate at Terra Madre in 2010, 2012