Supporting Youth Navigating Food Deserts And Food Injustice

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Nearly 1 in 6 Americans struggle to eat daily due to inaccessibility to food. Food deserts, areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food, are pervasive across the US. The current economic recession exacerbates this existing food crisis by causing inflation in the cost of living as well as simultaneously pushing folks into areas with little to no equitable infrastructure and resources. Learn how to define food deserts and understand the conditions and systems that perpetuate and maintain them, including infrastructure and lack of transportation, address how mutual aid works as a locally-driven solution, and ways that folks around the country are making it more accessible for youth to access fresh food and produce.

Speakers:

  • Selima Morrow, Director, Community Partnership, Point Source Youth

  • Alita Kelly, Land Organizing Director, National Young Farmers Coalition

  • Bria Hutson, Founder/Owner, Tha MF'n Vegan, Oakland DCT Youth Consultant

  • Dymin Williams, Youth Consultant, Point Source Youth

 
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