Response, Recovery, and Resilience in the MA Local Food System (Discussion Series – Keynote Panel)

Keynote Panel: Furthering Racial Equity Through Local Food System Work and Policy Development

Wednesday, Dec 9 from 2 – 4pm (Register Here)

Our food system, like our country, was constructed within a systemically racist framework. As healthy food relies on healthy soil, a healthy food system relies on practices based on an understanding of this framework and a commitment to dismantling it. The speakers will discuss their organizations’ efforts to embed racial equity into their work. We will explore ways to develop racially just practices and policies in local food system work, and consider opportunities to further this work through policy change.

Moderator: Liz Wills-O’Gilvie, MFSC Steering Committee member and Chair of the Springfield Food Policy Council

Speakers:
Maria Moreira, World Farmers
Jen Faigel, Commonwealth Kitchen
John Waite, Franklin County Community Development Corporation 

Register for the Keynote Panel here.