Meet the 2011-2012 Real Food Fellows!
- Participated in an in-person orientation retreat just outside Boston, MA co-sharing and facilitating discussions and popular education around theories of change, community organizing and building, storytelling for organizing, video production, communications and media, social movement theory.
- Produced creative multi-media projects related to food.
- Jesus created “Gardens of Justice”, a documentary of food access in the Bronx and produced “Just Food Training of Trainers”, a video documentary of NYC Just Food’s workshop trainers’ program
- Chako printed T-shirts and posters connecting Indigenous language-, food-, and lifeways
- Corey developed “Justice Journal”, a hip-hop and poetry mixtape on food and social justice and wrote“Ode to the Occupy Movement”, a poem connecting Occupy with (food) justice
- Vanessa completed “Dine on a Dime”, a cooking demonstration video on how to eat well on a budget
- Marina helped coordinate “Quiznos Carols for Farmworker Justice”, a video of Christmas carols asking Quiznos to sign onto the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Campaign for Fair Food
- Established their own organizations and projects
- Jason created Down to Earth, a community gardening network in Old Hickory, Tennessee
- Kyoka started Rise & Shine youth empowerment project in Bessemer, AL
- Aaron manages Arevalos Farm, a family business of year-round-grown native and diversified crops in McNeal, Arizona.
- Vanessa developed community-run gardens in Olney, Illinois.
- Courtney started a garden at the Fannie Lou Hamer Center for Change as a space for racial healing in Eupora, Mississippi.
- Worked in partnership with community-based and regional groups - including non-profits, government, school systems, media outlets, and churches - to create community gardens, youth food and health curriculum, health and nutrition education events
- Facilitated community and regional gatherings on food issues, including sustainable agriculture, womens' empowerment in the food system, health and eating well on a budget, youth and popular education, movie screenings, art in the movement
- Participated and (co)-facilitated workshops and spaces at regional and national conferences, including: Growing Power’s Growing Food and Justice Initiative, Black Farmers and Urban Gardeners Conference, Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group Conference, PBS Project VoiceScape, and the Community Food Security Coalition Conference
- Participated in a transformative learning journey in summer 2011 called the Food and Freedom Rides - celebration of the civil rights’ movement’s Freedom Rides - by documenting and sharing struggles and solutions in communities most impacted by the industrial food system.
Live Real currently seeks funding to train a new class of real food leaders. Please contact us to find out more.