McFarland, Pancho: - PANCHO MCFARLAND is a professor of sociology at Chicago State University. His latest work includes the coedited volume, Mexican-Origin Food, Foodways and Social Movements; Toward a Chican@ Hip Hop Anti-Colonialism; The Chican@ Hip Hop Nation: Politics of a New Millennial Mestizaje; and Chicano Rap: Gender and Violence in the Postindustrial Barrio. Since 2008, he has worked in the decolonial food movement as executive director of the Green Lots Project. He is a certified permaculture designer and became director of The Permaculture Institute of Chicago in 2020.