Wednesday, June 12th 2024
(130 New Scotland Ave, Albany, NY 12208) & Virtual
Co-Presented By Our Hunger Prevention Champions:
Avalon Gupta VerWiebe
Syracuse-Onodaga Food Systems Alliance
Avalon Gupta VerWiebe (she/they) is the Equity, Inclusion, and Engagement Manager at the Syracuse-Onondaga Food Systems Alliance, based in Syracuse New York on Haudenosaunee Land. Prior to working with SOFSA, Avalon participated in organizing a worker-owned community grocery store in Louisville, Kentucky, managed a community garden, and took part organizing the racial justice uprisings in summer of 2020. Avalon currently leads SOFSA’s food justice work, including SOFSA's Community Listening storytelling sessions, the annual Food Justice Gathering, as well as the Food as Medicine and Urban Agriculture working groups. Avalon also is passionate about fermentation as a method of food sovereignty and teaches food preservation workshops in various community spaces throughout Onondaga County.
Speaking In:
Opportunities for Food Systems Collaboration
The presenters on this panel engage in innovative advocacy efforts to affect policy change through the formation and engagement of their food-security councils, coalitions, and networks. Hear about the ways in which each approaches the relationship- and trust-building that allow for the most effective collaborations locally and across the state.
2:00 p.m.
Froman 101
Wednesday, June 12th 2024
(130 New Scotland Ave, Albany, NY 12208) & Virtual
Co-Presented By Our Hunger Prevention Champions:
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