Ravinder Kingra is a lecturer in food and beverage management at the Nolan School of Hotel Administration (SHA). Before joining Cornell’s faculty, Kingra most recently worked in Maine in special events, catering, and restaurant marketing and branding. He brings over 25 years of food- service operations experience to the school. Having worked in corporate- and independently owned full- and quick-service operations, Kingra has a diverse background from which to draw inspiration for his teaching. He is a member of SHA’s Academic Integrity Hearing Board (AIHB) and also serves as the faculty advisor to the school’s Epicurean Society. He co-authored a Cornell Hospitality Quarterly article that examined pre-opening training in hotels and restaurants. He has consulted with Gimme! Coffee, Dinosaur BBQ, and various independent restaurants in New England. In fall 2014, he was asked to deliver a presentation on technology and marketing in restaurants at the Costa Rican National Restaurant Congress in San Jose, Costa Rica. Based upon his work with students and industry leaders in HA4320 (Contemporary Healthy Foods) he was invited, in 2018, to become a fellow at Cornell’s Institute for Healthy Futures. His work in this area focuses on food ethics, sustainability, food policy and politics, sourcing, and nutrition.