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February 10th, Join the New School’s Critical Food Studies and Social Justice Spring 2022 event series, “Food Entrepreneurship, Sustainability and Social Justice.”
February 10, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Free
Food Entrepreneurship, Sustainability and Social Justice
February 10, 2022, noon-1:30 pm eastern.
Free and open to the public.
Food systems management takes place in diverse sectors and at different scales. This can include: kitchen management by culinary professionals and chefs; management of food businesses, cooperatives, and organizations; farm management; and labor management – whether worker-led or proprietor-driven. Meanwhile, food justice – as a movement, concept, and field of academic scholarship – insists that inequities in the food system are grounded in social structures such as structural racism, gender-based disparities, and intergenerational wealth and economic inequalities. There are many ways in which a food justice approach is important to supporting socially just and sustainable food systems management, touching upon diverse, but interconnected issues including wage disparity, uneven enforcement of regulations, and inequitable access to start-up capital for sustainable food businesses.
This panel discussion explores these themes from the perspectives of food entrepreneurs, innovators, and leaders in non-profit, government, and business sectors. Panelist comments will be followed by audience questions and participatory discussion.
Speakers:
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Ashwin Goutham Gopi, COO, Rise Products, Brooklyn, NY; and The New School
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Cara Santino, Food Entrepreneurship Program Manager, City Seed, New Haven, CT
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Tagan Engel, Resident Fellow at Yale Center for Business and the Environment; and Producer, The Table Underground
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Josefina Luna, Founder and Operations Manager, Cero Cooperative, Inc., Boston, MA
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Stacey L. Flanagan, Director, Department of Health and Human Services, The City of Jersey City
The event will be introduced by Dr. Latha Poonamallee, Chair of Management, and moderated by Dr. Kristin Reynolds, Chair of Food Studies, in the Bachelor’s Program for Adults and Transfer Students within the Schools of Public Engagement.
The event is part of two social justice-oriented series hosted at The New School in Spring 2022: The Management and Social Justice Conversation Series hosted by the Management Program, and the Critical Food Studies and Social Justice series hosted by the Food Studies program. Both programs are in the Bachelor’s Program for Adults and Transfer Students within the Schools of Public Engagement.
