Author Mentor Program

The goal of the JAFSCD Author Mentor Program is to provide less experienced researchers or professionals with no-cost, short-term (2 to 6 hours) technical assistance in preparing a submission to JAFSCD. This might be a research paper or reflective essay (peer-reviewed) or a commentary (not peer-reviewed). The assistance may include:
  • General advice in focusing the topic
  • Modest editorial help—sentence clarity and logic
  • Assistance in submitting the draft to JAFSCD

The JAFSCD Author Mentor Program is intended to provide limited, general guidance on a manuscript, and not to perform in-depth and technical services such as would typically be provided by a paid consultant. Our mentors are volunteers who provide guidance based on their knowledge and experience, and we provide no warranty, expressly stated or implied, regarding the usefulness of this guidance to you and your project. In addition, we cannot guarantee that a suitable mentor will be available to assist you.

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Disclaimer: The JAFSCD Author Mentor Program is intended to provide limited, general guidance on a manuscript, and not to perform in-depth and technical services such as would typically be provided by a paid consultant. You will be a volunteer providing guidance based on your knowledge and experience. JAFSCD does not provide any warranty to the mentee, expressly stated or implied, regarding the usefulness of this guidance.

JAFSCD Author Mentors

Dr. Charles Levkoe

Charles Levkoe is the Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Food Systems, the Director of the Sustainable Food Systems Lab and an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Lakehead University. His community engaged research uses a food systems lens to better understand the importance of, and connections between social justice, ecological regeneration, regional economies and active democratic engagement. Working directly with a range of scholars and community-based practitioners across North America and Europe, Dr. Levkoe studies the evolution of the broader collective of social movement networks that views the right to food as a component of more sustainable futures. Mobilizing his existing partnerships, Dr. Levkoe integrates his research and teaching through community engaged learning pedagogies and supports students, community-partners and scholars to be actively involved in knowledge co-generation. Through community-based, action-oriented inquiry and teaching and the development of placed-based action projects, his research contributes to critical discussions that inform theory, civil society action and public policy.

Dr. Gilbert W. Gillespie

Gil Gillespie is a retired sociologist who worked for many years in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University. His research and teaching focus was on issues of agriculture and food and on rural communitydevelopment around human-scale and ecological agriculture and food. He currently lives in rural southwest Iowa where he is an active member of his local food policy council and where he and his wife operate a small-scale, diversified agricultural enterprise aimed at local markets.

Keith Williams

Keith is the Director of Research and Social Innovation at First Nations Technical Institute; a post-secondary institution based on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in southern Ontario. Keith has family roots in Tyendinaga and is also a Ph.D. candidate (Educational Studies) at St. Francis Xavier University. Keith is interested in rediscovering a kind of continental citizenship by cultivating intimate intra-personal relationships with the food and medicine plants of Turtle Island.