Advancing Food Justice: What is the Role of Community Engagement?

Friday, March 3, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Hunthausen 100

Join a conversation and Q&A with community members about their work in food justice advocacy. Light refreshments will be provided!

Brione Scott is director of Clean Greens Farm & Market, an organization that is dedicated to food access to vulnerable communities who do not typically have access to affordable organic produce. She also hosts the Clean Greens Living show on Rainier Avenue Radio.

Laura Titzer is a facilitator, writer and current director of market operations at the Neighborhood Farmers Markets. She has been engaging in food justice work since 2010 when she co-founded a food security coalition in Indiana. Since then she has supported Wisconsin producers in increasing sales opportunities to developing a food justice summer school curriculum to facilitating county wide efforts on farm to food bank to working to reduce racism and increase access at food banks to supporting grassroots work in many other ways across the state.

Dr. Mark Cohan is associate professor of Sociology and chair of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Seattle University. His specializations are in social psychology; gender and sexuality; and the sociology of food. Over the last several years, he's volunteered, taught, and conducted research in the area of food justice. He worked as part of a research team investigating nutrition education at food banks which ultimately produced the report, “Sharing Power, Building Community: Strategies for Improving Nutrition Education at Food Pantries” for Northwest Harvest. He has also worked with Clean Greens Farm and Market to support Black farmers and farming education for Black youth.

E-mail grios@seattleu.edu for any questions.