With over 25 years of experience as a scientist, program manager, and policy advisor, Melissa D. Ho works at the intersection between global development and conservation of natural resources. Her goal is to ensure that people--local and Indigenous communities especially--are at the center of solutions for climate and nature. With expertise in food systems transformation, freshwater resilience, and climate finance, she will give Village Voices a forecast into what she sees in our food future: a food system forecast just before the big food events of Thanksgiving and year-end holidays.