VCN: Tell us a little about yourself. What is your favorite food and why? CY: My name is Christal, I’m a Junior at John Jay, and I’m the Food Justice Fellow at Swipe Out Hunger currently. I’m a big believer in growth and taking whatever’s thrown at me to create something positive. I just learned [...]
VCN: Tell us a little about yourself. What is your favorite food and why? AC: My name is Alec Chi. I’m from Houston, Texas, and my family is from Taiwan and Japan. I like cooking, farming, swimming, and skateboarding. My favorite food is stinky tofu which is fermented tofu that can be cooked in a [...]
VCN: Tell us a little about yourself. What is your favorite food and why? CM: I’m a Public Health major at Hunter College, and I’m a Food Justice Leadership Fellow with the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, so I advocate for food justice in New York City. I also work in an ophthalmology clinic where [...]
Cheyenna Layne Weber organizes within solidarity economies and grassroots racial justice groups. She is a co-founder of the Cooperative Economics Alliance of NYC and New Economy Coalition, which both serve to build solidarity economies across Turtle Island [U.S.] territories. Currently she works with SolidarityNYC to support NYC’s solidarity economies and with PeoplesHub, an online movement [...]
Kim Vargas Earlier this year, the first cohort of CUNY Food Justice Leadership Fellows completed the yearlong training portion of the program and started 6-month internships with organizations committed to food justice and creating opportunities for young food justice leaders. To help you learn more about our Fellows, we will be publishing a [...]
Ashanté Reese is the coeditor with Hana Garth of a 2020 book called Black Food Matters: Racial justice in the Wake of Food Justice (University of Minnesota Press). Reese is assistant professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. In this interview with the Urban Food [...]
Valerie Chong Nigg (VCN): Tell us a little about yourself. What is your favorite food and why? Aylleen Kocher (AK): My name is Aylleen Kocher, I’m a student at Lehman College, and I will be graduating next winter. Outside of work, I enjoy cooking, anime, video games, and I’m just a big food nerd. I [...]
Institute Director Nicholas Freudenberg discussed his new book "At What Cost Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health" (Oxford University Press, 2021) on iEat Green on the Progressive Radio Network. You can hear the interview at this link - and also find a recipe for a delicious Beet Walnut salad. The summary of the interview [...]
Karla Ignacio Valerie Chong Nigg (VCN): Tell us a little about yourself. Karla Ignacio (KI): My name is Karla Ignacio, I just graduated from Lehman College as a Sociology Major. I am from the DR. I’ve been studying and working on food justice for about four years now, and I just graduated as [...]
At What Cost Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health, a new book by CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute director Nicholas Freudenberg, describes the challenges that people face in finding the “six pillars of health” – food, education, health care, work, transportation, and social connections. Published by Oxford University Press and released last month, the [...]
