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 that was eventually identified as colorectal cancer. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001. She now lives in Australia with her partner, Dianne Otto the Francine V McNiff Professor in Human Rights Law at the University of Melbourne, and teaches at the University of Melbourne. In 1992, Nestle delivered the first Kessler Lecture for the CUNY Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies titled ""I Lift My Eyes to the Hill": the Life of Mabel Hampton as Told by a White Woman". Her life was the subject of a 2002 documentary by Joyce Warshow entitled "Hand on the Pulse," and