Andrew White is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with bachelor’s degrees in Global Studies and Political Science. He is interested in public policies in general, but primarily those relating to food systems, land use, government funding, and sustainability. Pursuant to these, he has been involved in a range of different policy work. His undergraduate studies included a course that was built around an analysis of social science research, in which he analyzed the impact that COVID-19 has had on Cuba’s food security and produced a paper. He completed this project by examining both academic literature and news sources to produce an overview of the research on the subject; and later gave a presentation on the research in the University of Illinois’ Undergraduate Research Symposium. Outside of his classes, he served as the Vice President of Chicago Area Peace Action’s student chapter at UIUC (CAPA UIUC), where he advocated for public policies like the Justice for Black Farmers Act and Clean Energy Jobs Act. Additionally, he worked as a student worker for Engaging Youth for Positive Change (EYPC), an organization that provides high school students with civic education through a policy-based approach to understanding local governance. In this role, he wrote several policy documents, focusing mainly on food system based health policies.
