Rajiv Narayan

I recently graduated with from the University of California, Davis, where I designed and studied an interdisciplinary course of economics, philosophy, anthropology and sociology. At the moment, I'm the outgoing Senior Health Care Policy Fellow for the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network. As you might be able to tell from the links below to The Huffington Post, Next New Deal, Policy Mic, California Aggie, and my blog, I write a lot. But I've also interned at an urban farm in Milwaukee, taught classes on the Social Theory of Eating Disorders at my college, and run communications for a couple different organizations. I've researched obesity legislation in Argentina, food stamps in California, the racial dynamics of obesity policy in Southern States, and the identity politics of fat activism. I'm currently wrapping up research on the evolutionary context for obesity via the Thrifty Gene Hypothesis. Having been obese my whole life, I lost about 100 pounds at the beginning of college. Those experiences, and the questions I have therein, form the basis for many of projects you see here. With my friend Akshaya, I also host the Pop Culture Coffee Break podcast.

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