Ellen Kang is an economic anthropologist whose research agenda focuses on community-based provisioning efforts.  More specifically she studies ways urban agriculture is utilized to address food insecurity.  Currently, she is conducting an ethnographic study of the impact of Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm’s Agrihood Baltimore Initiative.  Previously, she studied a community gardening network, in Chicago, which distributed food through a non-profit gardeners market in a black neighborhood that was a food desert.  Her other research pursuits include a mixed-methods study aimed at diversifying Public Health faculty, to generate greater equity in Public Health research.  At Morgan, she has taught Research Methods to Public Health Masters students, and previously she taught introductory and upper-level Sociology courses, as well as classroom and laboratory Anthropology courses.