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Rhonda Ferguson works at the intersection of food justice and health, focusing on small-scale agriculture for food and fibre, rural livelihoods, and food and fibre systems. She has a PhD in international human rights law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights at Ollscoil na Gaillimhe, where her research focused on socio-economic rights to food and health. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and Food Secure Canada and an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. She completed research projects at the Dahdaleh Institute related to food security during the Covid-19 pandemic (with Byomkesh Talukder and James Orbinski), migration (with Linn Biorklund Belliveau), and the arms trade. She currently lives and works in Unama'ki/Cape Breton and remains a member of the Dahdaleh Institute, managing the Institute's re-chartering process.
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