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  • From: burns <michael AT fingerlakespermaculture.org>
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  • Subject: Expert to speak on Food Justice and Sustainability, 5/27 at Ithaca College
  • Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 10:28:07 -0400


Nikki Henderson, Executive Director for the People's Grocery in Oakland,
California, will explore connections between Food Justice and Sustainability on
Thursday May 27, at 7:30pm in the Clark Lounge (Campus Center) at Ithaca
College.

The wider Ithaca Community is warmly invited to this free event!

The People's Grocery is a food-justice organization that has been using
education and direct distribution to encourage healthy eating in West Oakland
since 2002.

Prior to joining People’s Grocery in 2009, Nikki worked with Green-for- All
founder Van Jones to develop national programs for people of color in the
environmental sector, and she has gained extensive exposure to the politics and
dynamics of national food and farming movements through work with the
President of Slow Food USA.

As expressed on the organization’s website, “[People’s Grocery] wants to
change the way the food system works. We believe everyone should have access
to healthy food, regardless of income. We call this ‘food justice’ – the belief that
healthy food is a human right. The food system is failing to provide low-income
people with the healthy foods they need to thrive. It is also failing to create
good jobs and support local food businesses in urban communities. So People’s
Grocery works toward creating a food system that centralize the needs of the
urban poor and develop programs and enterprises that produce and distribute
fresh foods, provide nutrition education, promote urban agriculture and create
local jobs."

For more information on The People's Grocery, visit www.peoplesgrocery.org .

Ms. Henderson is in Ithaca as a keynote presenter at The Finger Lakes Project
Workshop, which aims to assist college-level faculty, staff, and students to
explore ways to integrate concepts of sustainability in education. The 2010
Finger Lakes Project Workshop will be held from May 26 to 28.
Visit IC’s FLP workshop website for more information:
www.ithaca.edu/fingerlakes_project/FLP2010/

A map of the Ithaca College campus and parking lots is available at
http://www.ithaca.edu/map/index.php

We hope to see you there!

For more information, contact Karryn Olson-Ramanujan at
kolsonramanujan AT ithaca.edu

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