Amount Awarded:
 $2,000
Funding Received:
 2019-2020
Project Status:
 Active: Planning phase

Executive Summary

This project utilizes the biannual UW Food Systems Seminar (NUTR 400/500) to support student learning and dialogue about food systems amidst the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and systemic racism, which together amplify the need for health and food equity. This seminar will showcase researchers and organizers working at the confluence of these pandemics for positive and impactful change. Sessions will highlight challenges as well as transformation, hope, and potential for resilience and equity to root across the food system. Funding from the CSF Intersectional Sustainability Grant supports honoraria for community leaders with expertise often housed outside of academia. Such expertise is important, now more than ever, to better understand the lived experiences across communities and to amplify community-identified solutions. Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities are disproportionately impacted by both COVID-19 and exploitation throughout the food system. This funding helps center voices from beyond the university and lift up solutions to food system-related environmental and societal problems.

Primary Contact:
Dr. Yona Sipos
ysipos@uw.edu