Albino Garcia gives a rich history of how La Plazita came into existence. He discusses La Plazita's philosophies of "La Cultura Cura" and how they are healing formally incarcerated youth and families through connecting them to the land. Albino also takes time to dive deep into what it means to build organic community power.
Read MoreDr. Ashley Gripper tells an in-depth story of her life—sharing all the interconnected moments, memories and experiences that brought her to the land work that she does daily. Through joy, grief, sorrow, and healing, all things return back to the earth and so should we.
Read MoreLupe Gonzalo of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) shares the profound power that lies within farmworker voices to build agency among farmworkers in impact change in Immokalee, FL and inspired advocates nation-wide.
Read MoreBevelyn Afor Ukah believes that youth power holds the key to our survival and collective freedom. Her work at the Food Youth Initiative (FYI) at the Center for Environmental Farming System is more than just about food access, their organizing efforts span across interconnected issue areas leading us towards liberation.
Read MoreDonne Gonzalez and Emily Arasim are deeply committed in serving as acequia caretakers, and passing on knowledge about intergenerational farming and the larger systems impacting people living in New Mexico.
Read Moreamaha sellassie is a public-sociologist working to transform communities through a love ethic. In this episode, amaha shares the story of how Gem City Market, a worker owned cooperative, came into existence.
Read MoreAs a second generation Pan-Asian American, Angela Patel (she/her) uses her cultural history to shape and influence her work at Danny Woo Community Garden as the Sustainable Community and Educational Coordinator.
Read MoreKyle Tsukahira is the Co-Director of API Forward Movement based in Los Angeles, CA. In this episode, Kyle shares his journey into food justice work and his work to increase access to affordable and culturally relevant foods across ethnic backgrounds for the diverse Asian Pacific Islander community.
Read MoreCarlton Turner, co-founder, co-director, and lead artist of the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production, tells his food story—a deeply compelling tale that tells the socio-political and economic history of Utica, Mississippi as it connects to the current day.
Read MoreSpace Curator, Facilitator and conjuror of spaces for freedom, Emanuel H. Brown (he/him), Executive Director and Steward of Acorn Center for Restoration and Freedom, life's work centers around the question of How can people get free? How can people feel free?
Read MoreJanna 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.
Read MoreChristina 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.
Read MoreHolly 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.
Read MoreSara 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.
Read MoreJeff 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.
Read MoreMichael 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.
Read MoreWinnie Huston, Policy Strategist at DC Greens, speaks to the power of connecting personally with community members in food spaces.
Read MoreRod 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.
Read MoreDenisa 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.
Read MoreXavier 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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