We Hungry! Harvesting Food Justice Through Community-centered Climate Solutions
Saturday, February 1, 2025 2:00–2:50 PM
Description
From the farmer planting seeds to the consumers plates, post-colonial structures severed many ties between the people and their food systems. Global food supply chains flourished by subjecting people in the global south to exploitative food production. Simultaneously, people in the global north have become more reliant on grocery stores and processed foods, further unequal access to healthy options. Food Justice and Food Sovereignty aims to break this cycle, centering one’s right to health and culturally relevant food through sustainable practices. This talk will look at how different scales of food justice help rebuild community connections to their food systems while also being a potential climate solution. To provoke questions about our own food systems, we will also discuss resources that encourage action beyond the talk.Presenter: Sarafina Glaricia Lewis (she/her)
Sarafina Glaricia Lewis, she/her/hers, class 2025, is a Haitian American from Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY. She is a double major in Africana and Latin American Studies and environmental studies. By combining the two, she has centered her studies around food justice. She loves her family, friends, and building community along with plants she tends to at the Colgate Greenhouse. Her love for building community has allowed her to possess various leadership positions at Colgate such as freshman representative for the Caribbean Student Association, social media chair and chairwoman for Sisters Of the Round Table, and currently the educational director for Black Student Union and one of Colgate Hunger Outreach Program (CHOP) students leaders.