Tom Philpott is a Senior Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins University's Center for a Livable.Previously, Philpott worked for twenty years as a journalist. He was the food and agriculture correspondent for Mother Jones, and before that, he was a food editor, columnist , and reporter at Grist.Philpott's first book, "Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It," was published in 2020.