[Plsugs] SEMINAR - Food Labor Panel Discussion

[Quist, Tanya M - (tquist)]

The Food Security and Social Justice Network (FSSJN) presents a Food Labor panel discussion

Wed. April 20th, 12-1:30pm
Room S107 ENR2 Building
The event is free and open to the public.
Lunch will be provided
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From farm laborers to restaurant workers, over one-third of the US workforce is employed in the food industry. Labor is a critical component of our food system, yet is often overshadowed by concerns about consumer safety and the environment. Laborers involved in food production, processing, distribution, retail and service are often subject to unsafe working conditions and low wages.

The Food Security and Social Justice Network<https://fssjn.wordpress.com/> (FSSJN) believes that a just food system must also be just for the people who bring food to the table at every step of the food chain. FSSJN is hosting a Food Labor panel to bring together faculty, students, and community members to discuss the challenges facing workers in the food chain and pathways toward a more just food system for all.

We hope that you can join us for a lively discussion of food labor issues over a lunch of Tucson Tamales. If you have any questions please be in touch

The Food Labor panel will feature:

Abby Rosen: Chef and Culinary, Job and Life Skill Instructor with Caridad Community Kitchen, a program of the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona in Tucson.

Jill Guernsey de Zapien: Associate Dean for Community Programs at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.
Christina Greene: PhD candidate in the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona.

César López: a local farmer and activist currently based out of Ambos Nogales

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Speaker Bios
Abby Rosen oversees the development and implementation for the culinary and job and life skills curriculum within Caridad’s Culinary Training Program. She earned a BS in Hotel and Restaurant Management from Northern Arizona University and an Associates in Culinary Arts from Pima Community College. Abby bring to Caridad over 13 years of professional baking experience, ranging from fine dining restaurants to resorts.

Jill de Zapien has been involved in community based public health interventions, policies and research in Arizona and throughout the Southwest and Mexico for more than thirty years. She is particularly proud of her collaborative work with the promotora movement throughout the border region, her long-term commitment to community based participatory research and action, her binational collaborations and her work to improve the quality of life for farmworkers in the United States and Mexico.

Christina Greene is a PhD candidate in the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona. Greene’s research interests include climate change vulnerability and the links between climate, agriculture and rural communities. Her dissertation research focuses on the impacts of the ongoing drought in the farmworking communities of California’s Central Valley. Before attending the University of Arizona, Greene spent several years with the United Nations Mine Action Service in Eastern Africa and the Middle East.

César López works with Barrio Sustainability Project and Crossborder Food Producers Cooperative. He has worked in the Sonoran desert in public health and community organizing, both in the South side of Tucson and both sides of the border in Nogales. He is currently leading efforts to build capacity for members of extreme poverty communities to pursue economic development through the production of vegetables and water harvesting in the desert.




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Carly Nichols
PhD Student
University of Arizona
School of Geography and Development
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carly_Nichols



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Carly Nichols
PhD Student
University of Arizona
School of Geography and Development
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carly_Nichols



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Carly Nichols
PhD Student
University of Arizona
School of Geography and Development
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carly_Nichols



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Carly Nichols
PhD Student
University of Arizona
School of Geography and Development
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carly_Nichols
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