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Webinar: How Can the Right to Food Inform Emergency Food?
Last chance to register. WhyHunger is pleased to announce a new webinar on the Right to Food and how the human rights framework can inform emergency food in the US. We will discuss: how WhyHunger engages around the Right to Food, ensuring emergency food is provided with dignity, and the Right to Food framework and how it can inspire action. Speakers include Nadia Lambek, a public interest lawyer who served as an advisor to former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter; Stephanie Solomon, Director of Education and Outreach at Mother Hubbard's Cupboard in Bloomington, IN; Jessica Powers, Director of the Nourish Network for the Right to Food at WhyHunger; and Alison Cohen, Senior Director of Programs at WhyHunger. See below for more information and background on each speaker. The webinar will be held on March 17th at 2pm EST. Space is limited; please send an email to nourish@whyhunger.org to register. Learn more here.
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Chant Down Babylon: Building Relationship, Leadership and Power in the Food Justice Movement
Leaders from three dynamic grassroots organizations convened in Detroit to initiate a conversation and develop action around collective leadership by people of color in the food justice movement.
In the latest addition to WhyHunger's
Food Justice Voices series, Malik Yakini, Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, D'Artagnan Scorza, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Social Justice Learning Institute and Nikki Silvestri, Social Innovation Strategist and former Executive Director of People's Grocery, discuss the complexities of the role of African-Americans in the food movement, leadership dynamics, their hopes for the future of the food movement and why they are trying to "work themselves out of a job" to indicate true reform.
It's not really revolutionary to wake up in 20 years and continue addressing the same problem over and over again...the revolutionary thing to do is to make sure that I help usher in the revolution so that what I'm doing is no longer needed. -Dr. D'Artagnan Scorza
Lifting up some of the unspoken dynamics at play and supporting the healing of the communities where they work, this conversation offers a window into the minds of these dynamic community leaders who approach their work with love and honesty. Download and read the full conversation.
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Call for Submissions: Youth Food Justice Zine
An exciting, new addition to WhyHunger's Food Justice Voices series, the Youth Food Justice Zine, will share the stories of youth food justice activists and look at how youth power has created change throughout generations. We want to include as many voices as possible, so please spread the word and encourage the youth you know who are doing food justice work to submit their art and/or written content to zine@whyhunger.org. Content guidelines and details can be found here. Deadline to submit is April 1st!
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The Maya Wiley Fellowship Program
The Maya Wiley Fellowship program celebrates and supports grassroots leaders seeking to achieve racial equity through structurally transformative policy strategies and campaigns.
The inaugural Maya Wiley Fellowship will afford the opportunity for fellows to:
- Expand or deepen their work in the field, to advance a specific policy or strategy for creating community change at a local level;
- Build their capacity in areas that fellows identify as a desire for growth; and
- Leverage local, regional, and national networks to elevate their work and ideas.
- This is a one-year fellowship program that provides a $25,000 stipend.
Nominations are due by Monday, March 30. Details on criteria and the process can be found here.
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Please verify that your organization's profile is accurate in the database. To update your record, email
database@whyhunger.org. If your organization is not in the database, please join us here.
Our Hotline number has changed to 1-800-5-HUNGRY. Please update your records and find outreach materials here. |
Nourishing Change is meant to encourage conversation and dialogue about transforming communities, community food security and the emergency food system. We want to hear from you! Email us at nourish@whyhunger.org
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Nourish Network for the Right to Food
WhyHunger
505 Eighth Avenue, Suite 2100
New York, New York 10018
212-629-8850
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Contributors: Betty Fermin and Jessica Powers.
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