Anuradha Mittal

Anuradha Mittal is codirector of the Institute for Food and Development Policy — better known as Food First — an organization that seeks to establish access to food as a basic human right. Trained as a political scientist, Mittal has extensive experience in food-related activism in the U.S. and in the Third World. She’s editor of two books, America Needs Human Rights and The Future in the Balance: Essays on Globalization and Resistance, and has written numerous articles on global trade and human rights for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other publications. Prior to coming to the U.S. in 1994, she worked with the Society for Participatory Research in Asia on issues of people’s access to land and natural resources.

— From February 2002