Description
Elizabeth Kucinich
Human and Ecological Security Expert and Public Policy Advisor
From battlefields to farm fields, conflict to peace, public health to soil health, extraction to regeneration, monetary policy to agricultural policy, and scarcity to prosperity, Elizabeth Kucinich's work has been guided by a lifelong dedication to advancing the policies, practices, and conditions that enable life to thrive.
Elizabeth Kucinich is a human and ecological security expert, policy advisor, and documentary producer whose work spans food systems, regenerative culture, organic agriculture, environmental stewardship, public health, media, and international affairs.
For more than three decades, she has worked across the nonprofit, public, and private sectors, building organizations, partnerships, businesses, and movements that advance human and ecological wellbeing. Her experience spans policy, government affairs, coalition building, business development, media production, and public engagement, giving her a unique perspective on how ideas move from the margins into mainstream culture, markets, and public policy.
Through organic agriculture and soil health, she came to recognize a deeper truth: the principles that sustain healthy soils—diversity, reciprocity, resilience, and relationship—are the same principles that sustain and regenerate healthy communities, economies, and societies.
The future depends upon our capacity to cultivate the thinking, the relationships, and the structures that allow life to flourish.
Elizabeth has advised leading organizations, policymakers, businesses, and international initiatives on organic agriculture, food system transformation, soil health, biodiversity, human wellbeing, and ecological resilience. She has also contributed to initiatives focused on diplomacy, international relations, monetary and economic system reform, sustainable development, and the protection and flourishing of the more than human world.
She is an award winning documentary producer whose films include GMO OMG, recipient of the Environmental Media Association Documentary of the Year Award, Organic Rising, Circle of Poison, and Hot Water. Through her media work, she has helped bring complex topics of food, agriculture, health, and ecological stewardship to broader public audiences.
Elizabeth is also a producer of Wild Foods, a new TV series distributed nationally across the United Staes on PBS (from April 2026) and the Create Network (from June 2026), exploring food, culture, biodiversity, organic agriculture, Indigenous knowledge, and humanity's relationship with the living world. The series travels from farms and forests to communities and landscapes, illuminating how people are restoring connection to place through food, stewardship, and ecological understanding.
Media and Storytelling Relating to WLSF:
For those interested in soil health innovation, the Arizona episode of Wild Foods is particularly relevant. The episode explores organic agriculture in arid landscapes, Indigenous food traditions, and emerging approaches to restoring soil function and water resilience.
The episode also features MyLand, whose soil biology platform was highlighted at the inaugural LVMH World Living Soils Forum in Arles. The program examines how living soil systems can improve water efficiency, soil health, and farm productivity in one of the most water challenged agricultural regions in North America.
Wild Foods on PBS:
https://www.pbs.org/show/wild-foods/
Arizona Episode:
https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/wild-foods/episodes/105-wifo
Wild Foods is currently available through PBS platforms in the United States. International viewers may need to use a VPN configured for U.S. access in order to view certain episodes and content.
