Farmers, Doctors, and Food Justice Leaders Discuss Food Sovereignty and Food-as-Medicine

What makes food sovereignty, food security, and food as medicine essential for empowering communities? How do those practices differ and intersect? What can we learn from their lead practitioners about strengthening our own neighborhoods and cities across the United States?

“CLOSE TO HOME: Town Halls on Housing Equality” is a five-part digital summit with frontline thinkers and doers from across New York City and around the country. At the town halls, which took place from April 26 to May 24, 2023, housing equality was examined through a specific lens: housing and economic justice, food sovereignty and security, homelessness and community, culture and displacement, and media narratives about housing. Learn more here.

Featuring panelists Naima Dhore, Rosalinda Guillen, Lilian Hill (Hopi), Rita Nguyen, MD, and Malik Kenyatta Yakini. Moderated by Jocelyn Ramirez. Opening performance by Renee Goust.