Patel is a Research Professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs. His research surrounds food systems, world ecology, and the international political economy. Featured in numerous publications and having recently completed a documentary project about food systems, Patel excels in research, writing, and teaching surrounding the subjects of social and development policy as well as policy communications.
Raj Patel discusses the foundations of the New Deal, and the importance of long-term militant organizing by the labor movement in its success, in order to emphasize the value of the labor movement in the attempts to pass a Green New Deal.
