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Alysia Radder graduated with a B.S. in Environmental Science from SUNY Plattsburgh, yet felt that her positivist education lacked the depth needed to understand and address environmental issues in their fullness. Having shifted her focus towards the Humanities, her combined interests include Hinduism & ecology, religion & food, and environmental ethics. In addition to her graduate work in the Religion Department, she is pursuing a minor in Nonprofit Organizational Leadership. Her thesis will study food theology and the ritual of prasādam within the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), documenting its exportation to the West and examining how the assessment of acceptable ingredients used in its preparation has fluctuated throughout the history of Caitanya Vaiṣṇavism. Alysia is currently the Outreach Director for UF’s Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions (CHiTra) as well as an academic advisor for the Bhumi Project, an educational campaign dedicated to the promotion of ecological awareness within Hindu communities throughout the world.