This is my life’s work—to inspire creativity, passion, compassion, and massive action to address the biggest issues of our time. Transforming food systems is a way to revitalize our planet, heal people and communities, protect precious ecosystems, and ensure a resilient future for all the Earth’s inhabitants.

 – Nicole E. Negowetti

About Nicole Negowetti

Harvard University Law School
Animal Law and Policy Clinic

Nicole E. Negowetti is a passionate nationally-recognized food systems educator, leader, mentor, scholar, and advocate.

Since 2017, Nicole has held teaching positions at the Harvard Law School Animal Law & Policy Clinic and the Food Law & Policy Clinic in the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School. Nicole currently works with students and partner organizations to research, develop, and implement policies to promote sustainable and humane food and agricultural production. She leads policy, regulatory, litigation, and research projects focused on food systems resilience, food technology and innovation, animal agriculture, and climate change. At Harvard, Nicole has taught Food Law and Policy, Animal Law and Policy, and Disruptive Food Technologies: Law, Politics, and Policy. She also teaches Food Law & Regulation at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. 

She is the author of dozens of papers published in legal journals and is the author of a forthcoming book, International Perspectives on New Food Technologies: Regulating the Future of Food, to be published by Routledge in December 2020, that explores and assesses the merits and risks of technological solutions to food insecurity and climate change.

Nicole’s perspectives on food systems change are informed by unique experiences obtaining degrees in Peace and Development Studies, and the law, and in her professional roles as a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School, Professor of Law at Valparaiso University School of Law in Indiana, co-founder and former Vice-Chair of the Northwest Indiana (NWI) Food Council, whose mission is to build a just, sustainable, and thriving locally-oriented food system through networking, education, and advocacy, and the first Policy Director of the Good Food Institute (GFI), a nonprofit organization working to create a sustainable, healthy, and humane food system by supporting mission-based start-up food companies.

In all these roles, Nicole gained invaluable experience cultivating relationships, building alliances, and coordinating with members of Congress, state legislators, community-based and nonprofit organizations focused on environmental, global hunger, sustainable agriculture, public heath, animal welfare, and food safety issues.