Marion Nestle is the country’s leading expert on the role that politics play in what and how America eats. Since publishing her paradigm-shifting book Food Politics in 2002, Nestle has continued to shed light on how food companies shape nutrition policy at the state, local, and national level. She is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University and Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. She received a Ph.D. in molecular biology and Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley.
The Journal interviewed Nestle in April 2025, in the early days of the second Trump administration, as nutrition and chronic illness issues were gaining visibility under Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.