Bryant Terry: Food Justice

Bryant Terry—eco chef, food justice activist, and author of Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine—works to build a more just and sustainable food system using cooking as a tool to make visible the intersections among poverty, structural racism and food insecurity. The recipient of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Food and Society Policy Fellowship, Terry recently worked with faith- and community-based organizations in the urban south to raise awareness, develop policies and make “fresh, healthy, and culturally appropriate food affordable to community members.” In 2002, he founded b-healthy! (Build Healthy Eating and Lifestyles to Help Youth), a multi-year initiative designed to empower youth to be active in creating a more just and sustainable food system. His talk explores the concept of food justice and positions us to understand how poverty, racism and classism impact peoples’ opportunities to access healthy food and live healthy lives. This event is free and open to the public. The presentation will be followed by an audience question-answer session. For more information, visit www.westminstercollege.edu/culturalevents.