If you are a dedicated, equity-minded individual looking to leverage your organizational skills in a dynamic and community-oriented environment, this could be the perfect growth opportunity for you. You can expect to learn about urban agriculture and neighborhood-level resource challenges in your efforts to create programs and permanent infrastructure to revitalization in disinvested neighborhoods.
Leah Penniman
Farmer, Co-Founder/Program Manager of Soul Fire Farm
“Food really can be medicine, or it can be a weapon that prevents civic participation. If you’ve only got a few dollars in your pocket, and there’s just a bodega or a package store, you can get Hot Cheetos and blue drink. That really undermines your health, your ability to learn in school, your ability to parent, to be a citizen. And it’s intentional.”
Karen Washington
Farmer, Co-Founder of Rise and Root Farm
“What I would rather say instead of ‘food desert’ is ‘food apartheid,’ because ‘food apartheid’ looks at the whole food system, along with race, geography, faith, and economics. You say ‘food apartheid’ and you get to the root cause of some of the problems around the food system. It brings in hunger and poverty. It brings us to the more important question: What are some of the social inequalities that you see, and what are you doing to erase some of the injustices?”
Frances Moore Lappé
Author of Diet for a Small Planet
“Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.”
Debra Eschmeyer
Co-Founder of Food Corps
"The nation's fiscal health is dependent upon the health of the next generation. When we consider the cost of inaction in a matter of national security, lives are at stake."