A Force To Be Reckoned With Part 6: BIPOC Womxn and Femmes: Navigating Vermont’s Food System
Thursday, October 15, 2020
8:00am - 9:00am
Online Webinar
The purpose of this panel is to support, celebrate, and reflect on the contributions of BIPOC womxn and femmes in Vermont’s food system. Together we explore their experiences as business owners, earth tenders, healers, faces of organizations, and advocates. Additionally, we aim to build community, honor the dynamic spaces that these folx are creating specifically for marginalized Vermonters, and unpack the inequities that exist at the crossroads between race and gender within Vermont’s food system.
Panelists:
Candace Taylor, Conscious Homestead
Akua Deirdre Smith, Black Land Power Network
Liv Peña, Vermont Releaf Collective
Representative from Susu Healing Collective