Food Justice Summit
You’re invited! The Food Studies Program is hosting its annual Food Justice Summit on Thursday, April 17, at 6 p.m. in the Science Center NASA Auditorium and online. The theme is “Stirring up Home: Black Women Chefs Reframing Cultural Food Traditions as Resistance and Reclamation Work.”
“We are excited that our Summit will center Black women who are changemakers of our global and local food system in an engaging dialogue with students, faculty, staff, and the larger Atlanta community,” wrote Dr. Kimberly M. Jackson, director of the Food Studies Program. “We have an outstanding panel of Black women chefs and scholars who will share their experiences on how they think about food as resistance and reclamation work and a marker to preserve cultural heritage.”
Panelists for the Food Justice Summit include:
- Armani Stewart, Black Foodways anthropologist.
- Chef Deborah VanTrece
- Chef Za
- Andrea Blanton
- Rose Scott, WABE/NPR’s award-winning journalist, will serve as the panel moderator.
Spelman's Food Studies program has hosted an annual Food Justice Summit for six years. This is the first year the Summit will take place on campus since the pandemic. Last year, the Food Studies Program collaborated with Emory University and Food Tank to discuss access, affordability, healthier choices, and food as medicine in consultation with the White House Office of Public Engagement (Biden-Harris initiative) and the CDC Foundation. Participants are welcome to participate in person or via livestream, courtesy of partners at Food Tank.