Thought for Food #2

Join Nourish Nantucket for its first summer series “Thought for Food.” Each program will provide an update on Nourish Nantucket's work to end food insecurity with its network of partners and a short presentation from a guest speaker in the food sector. In July, we were honored to host Merrick Carreiro, Food Equity Director of Island Grown Initiative on Martha’s Vineyard.

In September, our next guest will be Alison Meares Cohen, co-Founder and the Director of the National Right to Food Community of Practice, a growing network of more than 200 advocates and community-based organizations from across the country focused on shared learning and capacity building among those advocating for the Right to Food at a local, state or regional level.

Free and open to the public. Event will take place in the Great Hall on the second floor of the Nantucket Atheneum. Light refreshments will be served by Lemon Press.

If attending virtually, a Google Meet link will be sent closer to the event date.

Questions? Email [email protected].

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About Alison:

Previously Alison served as the Senior Director of Programs for WhyHunger for 13 years and before that as the Director of the Northeast and Midwest Programs for Heifer International. Alison has thirty years’ experience supporting grassroots-led organizations addressing the root causes of hunger and poverty at the intersection of food insecurity, agriculture, racism, health, human rights, and climate change. A contribution to the sector she's most proud of is her role as an organizer, weaver, and connector. Alison believes in the transformative potential of collective power through strengthening the formations of people and communities working for food and farm justice. Alison's training and practice in facilitative leadership, popular education and the technology of participation have informed processes leading to the formation of networks and collaborative projects where grassroots power turns into solutions that can transform institutions, structures, and systems. Alison is at heart a Southerner from the mountains of North Carolina but has been living, biking and gardening with her family in Brooklyn, NY for two decades.

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.righttofoodus.org/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisonmearescohen/

Host or Publisher Nourish Nantucket