Drs. Kim Greeson and Emily Affolter explore the notion of food systems as fundamentally racialized. They will lead by centering and unpacking select anti-oppression concepts such as: positionality, intersectionality, equity versus equality, racism, white privilege, white saviorism, and the coloniality of power. These concepts will guide an interactive webinar on how justice can be explored, cultivated, and enacted by food system practitioners. Come prepared to unpack your own identities and role(s) with relationship to power and privilege in food systems, so you can leave with a more critical lens and toolkit to advance food justice. This will kick off a mini-series of Food Systems Fridays webinars on the theme of “The Human Right to Food” that can increase attendees’ literacy on equity and justice in the food system.

Dr. Emily Alicia Affolter is the director of Prescott College’s Sustainability Education Doctoral Program. Prior to this role, she worked as a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Washington’s Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE). She earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on Multicultural Education from the University of Washington working alongside Dr. Geneva Gay, founder of culturally responsive teaching. Emily’s current scholarship, dissemination, and facilitation revolve around culturally responsive pedagogy for teachers and leaders in K-12 settings and STEM higher education, and harnessing equity literacy in teaching methods, content, policy, and leadership.

Dr. Kimberley Greeson is core faculty for the Ph.D. in Sustainability Education program. As an interdisciplinary teacher-scholar, Dr. Greeson also teaches across disciplines such as in the MS Sustainable Food Systems program. Her academic work focuses on the politics of conservation and environmental issues concerning human/nature relationships, sustainable food systems, environmental justice, and decolonizing pedagogy and research. Her recent work focused on ecological, social, and political issues related to native pollinator conservation in Hawai’i. As an Asian settler ally, Dr. Greeson works to bridge scientific ecological knowledge with Indigenous knowledge in a meaningful way for Hawai’i’s sustainability.

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