Brent earned his Master’s in Global Disease Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he serves as a Program Officer at the Center for a Livable Future. Since joining the Center in 2008, his work has spanned farm to fork, with published works on sustainable diets, climate change, industrial food animal production, food and agricultural policy, soil safety, and urban food systems. His work has been featured in Popular Science, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, NPR, and Newsweek. A former computer scientist, digital artist, and high school educator, Brent has never lost his love of teaching and visual communication.