Sep 30 Wed
2020

Nourishing Black Futures: Setting an Antiracist Agenda on Food Justice and Black Maternal Health

11:00AM - 12:30PM Online via Zoom

Join the American University Antiracist Research & Policy Center and AUWCL Health Law and Policy Program for a panel discussion with scholars and activists on how we nourish Black futures through food and maternal health justice. Panelists will discuss the state of Black maternal health in the US, the role of food systems and environments in shaping Black maternal health, and what an antiracist approach to food justice would need to look like to sustain Black mothers and families.

Panelists are:

-Dr. Michele Goodwin, Chancellor's Professor of Law at University of California, Irvine

-Ebony Marcelle, Director of Midwifery at Community of Hope

-Dr. Ashanté Reese, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin

-Dr. Beverley Wheeler, Director, D.C. Hunger Solutions

The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Jessica Owens-Young, Assistant Professor, American University.


Organizer

Health Law & Policy