Dr. Monica White: Black Farmers, Food Security and Justice (Part 1/2)

Описание: Reclamation, Reconnection, & Resistance: Black Farmers, Food Security and Justice. Public talk and Q&A with Dr. Monica White, UW-Madison Professor of Environmental Justice . Welcome address by Chris Olson, Interim Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning.

Dr. Monica White is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Justice at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology at UW-Madison. She received her Ph.D. from Western Michigan University and is a former Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign's Department of African American Studies. She studies community-based food systems in Detroit and looks at how local communities of color access healthy food and the transformation process communities undergo during periods of economic downfall. She also examines the history of agriculture in Detroit in relation to the history of urban agriculture to gauge land use in regards to food access.