I am pleased to announce the schedule of activities for this quarter’s Inequality Town Hall project:
Friday Food Justice Film Series
- Feb. 13, 1-3pm, Lecture Hall 1: Fed Up
- Feb. 20, 1-3pm, Lecture Hall 1: A Place at the Table
- Feb. 27, 1-3pm, Lecture Hall 3: Food Chains
Food System Inequality Town Hall
March 4, Library 4300
- 9-10:30am – Open House and Student Research Poster Presentations
- 10:30am-12:30pm – World Café Discussions
Inequality: Town Halls for Educational Innovation, a two year project funded by the Evergreen Fund for Innovation, is designed to bring together a wide range of students, staff, faculty and members of the Olympia community to hold ongoing forums on the unprecedented rise in income and wealth inequality that characterizes U.S. society. The focus of this quarter’s activity is on inequality in the food system, and is being organized by students and faculty in the academic program Food: Coevolution, Community and Sustainability.
Our goals are to build on the success of last quarter’s Town Hall on the topic of student debt, and to facilitate conversations and the identification of solutions to address food system inequality at the campus, community, national and global levels.
We are currently working on developing a website to share additional information and background material on the topic and the events, and will send a link to the site as soon as possible.
We invite all interested academic programs, faculty and staff to join us in this important conversation. If you are interested in participating, please send me a message confirming your participation. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact me.
We hope many of you are able to join us in this unique opportunity for interdisciplinary, cross-program collaboration on this critical issue .