Meet Destiny Treloar ’23!
Destiny Treloar is a Masters of Environmental Science (MESc) candidate at the Yale School of the Environment focusing on food justice. She is working with Dr. Dorceta Taylor at the JEDSI lab. Destiny is very interested in studying the disparities found in food access among Latina/x/e women and developing multifaceted solutions to reduce and eliminate such inequalities. Destiny’s thesis investigates chronically food insecure Latina/x/e women’s relationship with emergency food access in urban cities. As a Nicaraguan woman, Destiny is passionate about understanding the intersecting factors determining food access and uplifting the voices in her community, especially the women who inspired her to pursue this research.

Read about Destiny’s Global Food Fellowship here: COVID-19 and Emergency Food Justice: Understanding chronically food insecure Latina/x women’s relationship with urban emergency food access in Hialeah, Florida.