Marion Nestle Her name is pronounced like the English verb "nestle", not like the name of the Swiss food conglomerate, to whom she is unrelated. In 2011, "Forbes" magazine listed Nestle as number 2 of "The world's 7 most powerful foodies." Marion Nestle Marion Nestle (born 1936) is an American academic. She is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. She is also a professor of Sociology at NYU and a visiting professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. Nestle received her BA from UC Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa, after attending school there from
Joan Nestle She attended Martin Van Buren High School in Queens and received her B.A. from Queens College, City University of New York in 1963. During the mid-1960s she became involved in the Civil Rights Movement, traveling to the Southern United States to join the Selma to Montgomery march and to participate in voter registration drives. She earned a master's degree in English from New York University in 1968 and worked toward a doctorate for two years before returning to Queens College to teach. Nestle had been part of the working-class, butch and femme bar culture of New York City since the