Jess Ramirez
Instructor
jessmramirez@ksu.edu
Strategic | Connectedness | Individualization | Activator | Communication
Campus Office: 211 Leadership Studies Building
Responsibilities
Given my research and academic background, the Staley School of Leadership has provided me the opportunity to teach within the Global Food Systems Leadership program. Aside from my role as an educator, I also actively contribute to the facilitation and execution of the Food Security Scholars program housed with the Staley School of Leadership.
Research areas
My research interests concern the dynamics of food and housing security at both the national and global scales. My previous research has examined perceptions of the affordability and accessibility of on-campus dining options at California State University, Chico. Using data collected in this research, I led the first meal-swipe donation program on the Chico campus in 2019.
More recently, I conducted research in partnership with the Rural Grocery Initiative and the Kansas Healthy Food Initiative, part of K-State’s Research and Extension, to better understand the current status and needs of rural grocery stores across Kansas. Presenting this research at the National Rural Grocery Summit in 2022, I was able to cross-examine the data collected in my study with similar data collected roughly a decade earlier. Currently, I am exploring the dynamics of food insecurity among chronically unhoused homeless individuals within historically segregated metropolitan cities across the United States.
- Qualitative and ethnographic studies
- Basic needs
- Leadership within the global food system
- Race relations
- Poverty and malnutrition
- Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociological Honors Society
- American Sociological Association (ASA)
- California Association for Bilingual Educators (CABE)
- 2020 Center for Healthy Communities Student Excellence Award
- 2020 CSU Chico Outstanding Student Leadership Award
- 2020 Glenn Kendall Public Service Award
- 2020 Sociology Outstanding Student Award
- 2020 Student of the Year Award, College of Behavioral and Social Science
- 2020 Valene Smith BSS Outstanding Student Award
- 2019 Candi Hironaka Outstanding Class Leader Award
- 2019 Dr. Barbara Holland Peevers Memorial Scholarship
- 2018 Mexican Consulate Scholarship
- 2017 California Association for Bilingual Education Scholarship
- 2016 Indian Education Consortium Scholarship
- 2016 Indian Education Consortium Student of the Year
- B.A. in sociology, California State University, Chico
- M.A. student in sociology, Kansas State University
- M.P.H. student at Kansas State University
- Graduate Certificate student in social justice education, Kansas State University
Staley School of Leadership
252 Leadership Studies Building
1300 Mid-Campus Dr. N.
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-6085
leadership@ksu.edu