Mary Summers
 Senior Fellow, Fox Leadership Program, University of Pennsylvania

Mary Summers teaches academically based community service seminars and directs an associated speakers’ series for the Fox Leadership Program. She is the principal investigator for a research grant from the USDA to the Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger investigating the use of students and community volunteers in developing a food stamp enrollment campaign. She also seeks to develop effective models for the use of service learning students in inner city schools. Her areas of interest are American politics and political thought, interest groups, social movements, and the politics of food and agriculture. She has a B.A. from Radcliff College and a M.A. from Yale University and has published numerous articles on the politics of food and agriculture.

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