Food Justice Lecture Series

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We are excited to announce our NEW Food Justice Lecture Series in fall 2022! The series features four in-person guest lectures from experts working in food justice fields to expand understanding with real-world stories. These sessions are free and open to the public! No registration is required.

Learn more about each session below. We hope to see you in the HUB to explore food systems, social justice, civic engagement, community development, sustainability, nutrition, policy, and more!

Upcoming Lectures:

  • November 15 from 6:30-8pm:  Erika Perez and Edgar Aquino-Huerta from CATA – The Farmworkers Support Committee

Erika Perez &
Edgar Aquino-Huerta

Tuesday, November 15 6:30-8pm
HUB Flex Theater

Erika Perez and Edgar Aquino-Huerta are joining us from CATA– The Farmworkers Support Committee.
 
The pair will be talking about farmworker rights and their experiences as labor organizers in Pennsylvania. They are also staying to join the Sustainability Institute’s post-film panel on Wednesday night after the screening of Food Chains.
 
The talk will be followed by a Q&A.

Previous Lectures:

 

Teresa Elliott

Tuesday, September 20 6:30-8pm
HUB Flex Theater

Teresa Elliott has spent over 25 years working with Latino populations in the U.S. and Latin America to build cultural connections and advocate for social justice. This eye-opening discussion will help participants understand the necessary connection between food and community and the barriers that often stand between them.

Teresa is the executive director of the Norris Square Neighborhood Project, a community organization that strives to provide a safe space for folks to explore culture and social-justice issues, create art, and develop their sustainable-agriculture skills. With six different growing spaces dedicated to the diversity of the Puerto Rican culture and West African diasporas in Philadelphia, NSNP is an educational center the reflects the cultural and community that lives there. Teresa will share her experience working with the NSNP gardens, highlighting the powerful benefits of community agriculture, the nuanced difficulty of growing food and community in urban spaces, and what community food sovereignty really means. Her talk will be followed by a Q&A facilitated by two food justice interns to further dive into these topics.
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Owen Smith Taylor &
Christopher Bolden-Newsome

Tuesday, October 18 6:30-8pm
HUB Flex Theater

Owen Smith Taylor and Christopher Bolden-Newsome are from Truelove Seeds, a farm-based seed company based in Philadelphia that offers culturally important and open pollinated vegetable, herb, and flower seeds. Their seeds are grown by more than 50 small-scale urban and rural farmers who earn a profit from each packet of seed sold.
 
Owen and Christopher will be discussing seed rematriation, culturally important seed saving and trading, and ethics behind today’s seed markets. The talk will be followed by a Q&A.
 
This event will be co-sponsored by the Rock Ethics Institute. 
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Jen England

Tuesday, November 1 6:30-8pm
HUB Flex Theater

Jen England is the program director of food recovery operations at 412 Food Rescue in Pittsburgh. 412 Food Rescue addresses both food insecurity and food waste issues by transporting surplus food from food retailers to nonprofit partners who serve people facing food insecurity.
 
Jen’s discussion will cover subjects like food deserts, food access, and food waste, and the ways that they intersect through food rescue programs.
 
The talk will be followed by a Q&A.

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