Jock Herron 

Design Critic in Design Engineering, GSD

Jock is an instructor focused on food systems and health. He co-led the Smart Cities and Wellness project sponsored by the Humana Corporation and the Responsive Environments and Artifacts Lab at the GSD. He has served on the Steering Committee of the Worcester County Food Hub Initiative, and was an early supporter of a rotational grazing business in Central Massachusetts. Co-manager of family farms in southern Ohio (grains, gravel, lumber, solar) and a former chairman of the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research, he has a longstanding view that food systems are at the nexus of population and habitat health.