Food & Farm Justice Book Panel & Reception
Date and Time
Apr 2, 2019 5:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Apr 2, 2019 5:00 pm
14th & V
The Agroecology Research Action Collective presents the Food and Farm Justice Book Panel And Reception. Please join us for a discussion moderated by Garrett Graddy-Lovelace of the American University School of International service featuring five fearless voices for sustainability, justice, and the future of farming and eating. This event is free and open to the public, and features:
Dr. Monica M. White, "The Black Farmers' Historian" and the author of Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement is an assistant professor of environmental justice at the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Community & Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Dr. Ashante M. Reese is the architect of the Ward 7 Food Study and an assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Spellman College. Her book, Black Food Geographies: Race, Self Reliance, and Food Access in Washington D.C. is available April 1. When not teaching, she extols the virtues of Mambo + Anthro.
Dr. M. Jahi Chappell is a senior research fellow for agroecology and agricultural policy at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resiliance at Coventry University. He is the author of Beginning to End Hunger: Food and the Environment in Brazil and Beyond. His research primarily focuses on institutionalization of agroecology, food sovereignty, and food justice.
Dr. Joshua Sbicca is the author of Food Justice Now! Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle and an assistant professor of sociology at Colorado State University whose work focuses on intersections of social inequality and food systems. Prior to his book, "Food Justice Racial Projects: Fighting Racial Neoliberalism from the Bay to the Big Apple" was published in the Journal of Environmental Sociology.
Dr. Colin Anderson s a senior research fellow for agroecology and agricultural policy at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resiliance at Coventry Universit, where he researches and teaches about community- and people- led processes of transformation for resilience, social justice and well-being. His work, Everyday Experts: How peoples' knowledge can transform the food system, is available free of charge online and in PDF.
This event will be recorded for the Agroecology Research Action Collective's records.
