Loka Ashwood

Loka Ashwood is a professor of community and environmental sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Loka’s research currently identifies the dominate public and private firms in global agribusiness and their cross sectoral ties. She is working to make the findings accessible to the public. Loka is leveraging her collaborative research on the problems associated with corporate organizations to help identify new organizational strategies and forms that better serve communities for a richer social and ecological future. She authored For-Profit Democracy: Why the Government is Losing the Trust of Rural America (Yale 2018) and is co-author of Empty Fields, Empty Promises: A Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm (University of North Carolina 2023). She is a 2024 MacArthur Fellow. Her work feeds into the ACRE Justice initiative.