An ethnographer and folklorist, Leslie Soble has spent over seven years immersed in research on the carceral eating experience in the United States and its impacts on individuals, families, communities, and the environment. She is an internationally-recognized voice on the critical issue of prison food and currently leads Impact Justice’s Food in Prison Project, where she oversees programs and interventions to increase access to nourishing food for people impacted by incarceration. She is a founding board member of the Coalition for Carceral Nutrition and a member of the Invited Faculty at the Nova Institute for Health. Leslie is the author of Eating Behind Bars: Ending the Hidden Punishment of Food in Prison, recently published by The New Press in October 2025.