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I received a PhD in Geography from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2025. Before graduate school, I spent a decade working as a community-based social worker. I've been teaching in the GES department since 2018.
I teach courses on urban sustainability, cities, health, climate change, and related topics. My approach to teaching is focused on experiential and community-engaged learning.
My research focuses on intersectional feminist methods and methodologies, urban geography, food studies, food sovereignty, and local food systems.
My dissertation research was an intersectional feminist analysis of urban agriculture in Quito, Ecuador.
I am currently a co-investigator on the SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant called "Towards a Sustainable Food System for All: Strengthening Food Sovereignty in Waterloo Region". This partnership between the Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems and the Food System Round Table of Waterloo Region is a participatory action research project to strengthen local food sovereignty and food governance. It includes the development of food asset mapping, network analysis, and community engagement workshops.
Young, L. N. (2025). Operationalizing intersectionality analysis for urban agriculture in Quito, Ecuador. Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive). 2762. https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2762
Young, L. (2025). Food podcasts. In M. Classen & J. Sumner (Eds.), Teaching Food Studies. Edward Elgar Publishing. (Forthcoming)
Young, L. (2025). Intersectionality. In M. Classen & J. Sumner (Eds.), Teaching Food Studies. Edward Elgar Publishing (Forthcoming)
Young, L. (2022.) Food Environments and Access to Food – Examples from Toronto. Food Studies: Matter, Meaning & Movement, Editors: David Szanto, Amanda Di Battista, and Irena Knezevic. Carleton University. https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/foodstudies/chapter/food-access/
Blay-Palmer, A., Halliday, J., Santini, G., Carey, J., Malec, R., Taguchi, M, van Veenhuizen, R., Young, L. (2022). The City Region Food System Approach: Broadening the space for urban governance. In the Routledge Handbook of Urban Governance, Editors: Battersby, Ana Morgaues-Faus & Jill Clarke. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003055907-29/city-region-food-system-alison-blay-palmer-jess-halliday-guido-santini-joy-carey-roman-malec-makiko-taguchi-rené-van-veenhuizen-laine-young
Blay-Palmer, A., Johnson, C., Wilkes, J., Young, L., Nelson, E., Spring, A. & Benitez, B. (2021) Food systems - Beyond the buzz. Rural 21: The International Journal for Rural Development. https://agritrop.cirad.fr/599283/4/rural2021_03-S07-09.pdf
Young, L., Blay-Palmer, A. (2020). Building Communities/ Social Networks for Urban Agriculture, Achieving Sustainable Urban Agriculture, Editor: Han Wiskerke, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429275869
Blay-Palmer, A. and Young, L. (2019). Food systems lessons from the SDGs, in S. Dalby, S. Horton & R. Mahon (Eds.) Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Global Governance Challenges, Routledge: New York, pp. 19 – 35. https://www.routledge.com/Achieving-the-Sustainable-Development-Goals-Global-Governance-Challenges/Dalby-Horton-Mahon-Laine Young Thomaz/p/book/9780367139988
Young, L. (2019). Report: Gender and the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact Monitoring Framework Indicators. The RUAF Foundation, the International Water Management Institute, and the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land, & Ecosystems. https://ruaf.org/document/gender-and-the-milan-urban-food-policy-pact-monitoring-framework-indicators/
Young, L. & Rodriguez, A. (2019). Urban Agriculture and Youth Employment in Quito. Urban Agriculture Magazine, 35, pp. 28-29, the RUAF Foundation. ISN 1571-6244. https://www.ruaf.org/urban-agriculture-and-youth-employment-quito
- GESC465: Capstone Urban Sustainability Project
- GG265: Experiencing the City
- ES274: One Earth, One Health
- ES297: Climate Change & Collective Action
- ES110: Environment, Sustainability, & Society