Janna Cordeiro from San Francisco's Wholesale Produce Market discusses her public health work on sugar sweetened beverages in San Francisco and the struggles of taking on the well-resourced soda industry.
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Christina Goette, co-founder of Shape Up San Francisco Coalition, emphasizes the importance of centering the voices of communities who are disproportionately burdened by beverage industry's predatory marketing as well as ensuring tax revenues are reinvested directly back into these communities.
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Holly Scheider, representative on Berkeley's Sweetened Beverage Product Panel of Experts, connects the fight against the beverage industry to the historic public health efforts that took on the tobacco industry.
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Sara Soka, fellow at the Beeck Center and the campaign manager for Measure D, discusses the process of passing Measure D and the importance of community in moving SSB work forward.
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Jeff Ritterman, cardiologist and Vice President of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, breaks down some of the literature on the mechanisms by which excess sugar in sweetened beverages lead to diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
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Michael Jacobson, senior scientist at and co-founder of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), discusses the rise of soda consumption and array of strategies advocates have used reduce its harmful effects.
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Winnie Huston, Policy Strategist at DC Greens, speaks to the power of connecting personally with community members in food spaces.
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Rod Lew, Executive Director of Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership (APPEAL), makes the case for systems change and calls for equity based policy processes in SSB taxes.
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Denisa Livingston from Dine Community Advocacy Alliance and the Slow Food International Council discusses how the fight to reduce sugary drink and other unhealthy food consumption is a matter of reclaiming indigenous lifeways and foodways.
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Xavier Morales, Executive Director of the Praxis Project, makes the case for a transformative systems approach to health inequities caused by sugar sweetened beverages.
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“How Soda Taxes Can Drive Equity and Community Wellbeing” produced by the Duke Sanford World Food Policy Center with Xavier Morales to learn about the connection between sugar-sweetened beverage taxes and racial and social equity.
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