Dr. Monica M. White teaches courses in environmental justice, urban agriculture and community food systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the first African American woman to earn tenure in both the College of Agricultural Life Sciences and the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Her research investigates communities of color and grassroots organizations engaged in the development of sustainable, community food systems as a strategy to respond to issues of hunger and food inaccessibility. She is the author of Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement (UNC Press, January 2019).
Read more about Dr. Monica M. White: monicamariewhite.com
On February 15 2019, food justice advocates, urban farmers, and small food businesses across Chicago and the Midwest gathered to reflect on and strategize around Chicago’s food policy issues at the 14th Annual Chicago Food Policy Summit. Discussion varied from how to uplift new farmers, especially farmers of color, to organizing worker cooperatives. The 14th Annual Chicago Food Policy Summit also featured food vendors and CFPAC's first Food Business Clinic at the Summit.
Session included: Black, Indigenous and Brown People’s Collective Path to Food Sovereignty in Chicago, Centering Equity in Cannabis with the P.U.R.E. Cannabis Coalition, Evaluating the Impact of the Good Food Purchasing Program, Community and Healthcare Responses to Food Insecurity, as well as the Keynote speech by Monica M. White.
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