Claire Kelloway Wins James Beard Foundation Media Award for Reporting on the "Farm Bill Fight"

The Open Markets Institute proudly celebrates Food Program Manager Claire Kelloway who was awarded a James Beard Foundation Media Award for her incisive reporting for the Food & Environment Reporting Network in their “Farm Bill Fight” series published in Mother Jones.

Kelloway along with Teresa Cotsirilos and Bridget Huber, won in the Columns and Newsletters category for their critical examination of the structural inequities that shape American agriculture and food. Kelloway’s contribution, “The Farm Bill Hall of Shame,” covers the harmful policy choices in past federal Farm Bills that drove farm consolidation, pushed Black farmers off the land, and transferred federal farm support from the many to the few.  

Barry Lynn, Executive Director of the Open Markets Institute, offered his congratulations: 

“A huge congratulations to Claire, whose award is a testament to her fearless journalism and deep commitment to exposing the corporate power consolidation that weakens our food system. Her work brings vital attention to the ways monopolies harm farmers, workers, and consumers alike, and chip away at our individual liberties. We are thrilled to see her efforts awarded by one of the most prestigious institutions in food journalism.” 

Kelloway’s reporting builds on her extensive work at Open Markets, where she has led efforts to study the dangers of corporate consolidation in agriculture.  

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