Director
Food Studies Institute

Antonia Demas has a Ph.D. in education, nutrition, and anthropology from Cornell University. Dr. Demas has worked in various capacities for 30 years developing food-based curriculums and teaching food-studies in a variety of educational settings with people of diverse ages, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. Because of her excitement about the learning that occurs among children when they have positive, sensory-based, hands-on experience with food, she has devoted herself to engaging in research to document this observation scientifically. Her dissertation won two national awards for Excellence and Creativity. She is the director of the Food Studies Institute, based in Trumansburg, New York, a non-profit devoted to improving the long-term health and education of children.