Environmental Health Watch, Rid-All Green Partnership and Case Western Reserve University’s Social Justice Institute are holding the Race, Food & Justice Conference: Analyzing the urban food movement through a social justice lens.
Attendees will engage in ongoing dialogues that address history, policy, organizing, race and racism, and how these factors contribute to liberation and/or root causes of health disparities.
The conference, which started April 19 but continues April 20, is free and open to the public. Tonight’s event in Ford Auditorium begins with a reception from 5 to 6 p.m., followed by keynote speakers from 6-8:30 p.m.:
- Monica White, assistant professor of Environmental Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Malik Yakini, co-founder and the executive director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
The event will be moderated by Timothy S. Black, interim director of the Social Justice Institute of Case Western Reserve University.