Don't miss part 2 of Our Food is Medicine webinar series on June 17th - 2pm EST. We're so grateful to be in community with our powerful line up of panelists including Angela Odoms-Young, Ben Perkins, Kate Gardner Burt and Megan Sandel moderated by our very own Director of Research and Narrative, Norma Gonzalez. In this round, we ask the question "Can Community Research and Data Sovereignty Co-exist?" Why this question? As our ED points out, the core of our webinar series is about power, and shifting power to communities - and who owns data and narrative is incredibly powerful as a tool for upholding the status quo OR as vehicle for transformation... At Corbin Hill, we're interested in the latter. Join us for this important conversation by registering here: https://lnkd.in/es8ugX62
Creative Disruptor, Social Entrepreneur in Food and Markets, Community Ownership Advocate
Its worth noting that the work I'm engaged in, in 4 different states, provides a unique window to challenges and opportunities that exist in a particular place, while at the same time provide learnings and mechanisms to be leveraged and deployed throughout the field of food system transformation. Be it challenges around exclusionary practices around space for habitually excluded folks, culture preservation for legacy residents, black owned supply chains, closed loop food systems, or Food as Medicine. At Corbin Hill Food Project we launched “Our Food is Medicine” webinar series a few weeks ago with a provocative discussion, “Who Holds Power in the Business Case for Food As Medicine?” We’ll be hosting part 2 on June 17th, titled: Can Community Research and Data Sovereignty Co-Exist? Why this question? Despite that recent efforts have begun to champion the language of liberation and community co-creation, research is BY DESIGN still largely confined to powerful academic institutions with the capacity and credentials to apply for and meet the urgency of funding opportunities, infrastructure to hold the data, and the power and platforms to control the narrative of what foods our communities have access to. Join us for this important conversation as we discuss the critical questions that often go unaddressed, and unpack the ways in which many research institutions have historically and continue to be extractive and exploitative in our communities without truly leading to transformation. ALL our webinars in this series are at their core about power, and shifting power to communities. Without shifting of dollars and control of the questions being asked, data collected and interpretation, communities can never truly be in control of their own narrative about their lived experiences and future or their food systems. To those that have and will be researching our communities,we ask, what is the true value of our lived experiences? When will we have our stories and knowledge and wisdom validated and put to solutions that benefit us, rather than leveraged for your agendas? Register here: https://lnkd.in/gS_RxR2R #foodasmedicine #foodismedicine #equitablefoodsystems #datasovereignty #foodsovereignty #foodjustice
