Hugh Joseph (he/him), PhD, is Director of ISED Solutions, has spent his career developing community-based food, agriculture, nutrition and food security initiatives at the local, regional and national levels. He started the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project – an immigrant farming initiative - in 1998. He currently is Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Development in Boston, where he heads projects that develop and disseminate innovative T&TA resources for limited English language refugee farming audiences.
In addition to CFP, Joseph is a co-founder of the Community Food Security Coalition, the National Immigrant Farming Initiative; New England Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, the Northeast Food System Partnership, and the Boston Food and Fitness Initiative. He co-initiated the Massachusetts model that became the WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program.
Joseph holds an MS and PhD in Nutrition from Tufts University, and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Agriculture, Food and Environment Program of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, where he has focused on food systems-related teaching and research.
