Tanya Denckla Cobb
As Associate Director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation (IEN), Tanya Denckla Cobb is a mediator and facilitator in environmental public policy, author, and teacher. She teaches courses on food systems planning for the Minor in Global Sustainability. Through her career she has worked for the federal government, state government, local and state nonprofit organizations, and as an independent consultant and writer. Tanya was among the first certified in 1993 by the Virginia Supreme Court to mediate court-referred cases and conduct training in mediation. She is a senior practitioner on the national Roster of Environmental Dispute Resolution and Consensus Building Professionals. In recent years at IEN, she has worked on issues of sea level rise in coastal Virginia, tobacco harm reduction, community food systems, and Virginia food heritage. At the state level, she spearheaded and facilitated the 1st Virginia Food Security Summit in 2007, then facilitated the founding of the Virginia Food System Council, and again in 2011 facilitated the 2nd Food Security Summit to launch Virginia’s first statewide strategic food plan. She co-founded the Virginia Natural Resources Leadership Institute in 1999, where she continues to serve as teaching faculty. She conducts seminars in conflict resolution and collaborative problem solving for the National Preservation Institute, as well as develops customized training on demand.
She has authored numerous articles as well as two books: The Gardener’s A to Z Guide to Growing Organic Food, and Reclaiming Our Food: How the Grassroots Food Movement is ChangingThe Way We Eat -- which was named by Booklist as "one of the top ten books on the environment in 2012," and also won the Nautilus 2012 Gold Green Living Award for books that "promote spiritual growth, conscious living, positive social change, stimulate the imagination, and offer new possibilities for a better life and a better world."
Tanya Denckla Cobb, Associate Director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, University of Virginia, Urban and Environmental Planning, food systems, University of Virginia, global sustainability, global sustainability minor, global sustainability major, Global Sustainability Initiative, Global Sustainability Initiative at the University of Virginia
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TANYA DENCKLA COBB
Associate Director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, University of Virginia School of Architecture
Department: Urban and
Environmental Planning
Topic: Food Systems
Phone: (434)924-1855
As Associate Director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation (IEN), Tanya Denckla Cobb is a mediator and facilitator in environmental public policy, author, and teacher. She teaches courses on food systems planning for the Minor in Global Sustainability. Through her career she has worked for the federal government, state government, local and state nonprofit organizations, and as an independent consultant and writer. Tanya was among the first certified in 1993 by the Virginia Supreme Court to mediate court-referred cases and conduct training in mediation. She is a senior practitioner on the national Roster of Environmental Dispute Resolution and Consensus Building Professionals. In recent years at IEN, she has worked on issues of sea level rise in coastal Virginia, tobacco harm reduction, community food systems, and Virginia food heritage. At the state level, she spearheaded and facilitated the 1st Virginia Food Security Summit in 2007, then facilitated the founding of the Virginia Food System Council, and again in 2011 facilitated the 2nd Food Security Summit to launch Virginia’s first statewide strategic food plan. She co-founded the Virginia Natural Resources Leadership Institute in 1999, where she continues to serve as teaching faculty. She conducts seminars in conflict resolution and collaborative problem solving for the National Preservation Institute, as well as develops customized training on demand.
She has authored numerous articles as well as two books: The Gardener’s A to Z Guide to Growing Organic Food, and Reclaiming Our Food: How the Grassroots Food Movement is ChangingThe Way We Eat — which was named by Booklist as “one of the top ten books on the environment in 2012,” and also won the Nautilus 2012 Gold Green Living Award for books that “promote spiritual growth, conscious living, positive social change, stimulate the imagination, and offer new possibilities for a better life and a better world.”
Website: http://tanyadencklacobb.com
