Soup JOUMOU and a lecture TOO!

The Falk College Food Studies program invites you to a luncheon where we will serve Soup Joumou – the Haitian liberation meal.

Virtual live lecture featuring Leah Penniman

Leah Penniman is a Black Kreyol farmer, author, mother, and food justice activist who has been tending the soil and organizing for an anti-racist food system for 25 years. She currently serves as founding co-executive director of Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York, a Black & Brown led project that works toward food and land justice. Her book is Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land. Find out more about Leah’s work on the Soul Fire Farm website and follow her @soulfirefarm on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Leah will be joining our in-person moderators and panelists virtually.

Moderator:

Rick Welsh, Ph.D.

Department Chair and Undergraduate Director of Food Studies
Department of Nutrition and Food Studies will serve as moderator

Panelists:

Marcelle Haddix, Ph.D.

Distinguished Dean’s Professor of Literacy, Race, and Justice | Reading and Language Arts
Professor | Nutrition and Food Studies (courtesy appointment)
Faculty Affiliate | African American Studies | Composition and Cultural Rhetoric | Women’s and Gender Studies

Estelí Jiménez-Soto, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Food Studies
Department of Nutrition and Food Studies

Schedule:

Friday, September 10th:
12:00pm – Lunch, Falk College Events Room 335
12:45pm – Virtual live lecture, Grant Auditorium

Please RSVP for luncheon by 9/8