Miriam Lueck is a researcher in the Health Horizons program and across other projects at the Institute, contributing to a broad range of research tasks. She began interning with the Institute in 2003. As an ethnographer, her overarching interest lies in how people individually and collectively exert agency and embody the change described in forecasts, in their everyday lives. More specifically she explores how food connects people to each other, to their health and bodies, and to natural and built environments. These questions have taken her from homeless shelters in Berkeley to organic farms in Japan. Miriam holds a Bachelors degree in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. Outside of work, Miriam enjoys reading speculative fiction and playing guitar. She is also an avid player of World of Warcraft.