Rositsa Ilieva

Team Lead

Rositsa T. Ilieva is an urban food policy researcher and educator with a background in architecture and urban planning and expertise in urban food systems policies, planning, and design. At present, Dr. Ilieva is the Director of Policy at the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, based at the Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) of the City University of New York (CUNY), and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Public Health Policy Analysis at CUNY SPH. She has served as the Co-Investigator on two NSF-funded projects, the first one focusing on a multi-country research on urban farming and the second one on developing a prototype food equity dashboard for NYC.