Exploring SF Bay Area Food Justice
Time: B Block (9:50 am to 11:05)
Location: Thacher 201 and Garden
Leaders: Zia, Sophie Schneider '19 and teacher Mark Stefanski
Location: Thacher 201 and Garden
Leaders: Zia, Sophie Schneider '19 and teacher Mark Stefanski
The United States is a world leader in both environmental pollution and human incarceration. How are these degrading practices related, and how can community-centered urban farming and efforts to decrease recidivism go hand-in-hand? Join us to discover how two innovative organizations are working together to lead us toward a more just and sustainable world. Planting Justice is an East-Oakland based food-justice organization working to empower people impacted by mass incarceration, and the Insight Garden Program is a gardening and mindfulness program that guides prisoners in making connections between self, community and the natural world. Please join us in an exploration of what it’s like for these organizations to work at the intersection of environmental and social justice while promoting a more equitable, humane, and hopeful vision of the future.