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Brandy Brooks

Radical Solutions LLC
Founder
Maryland

9:00am EST

Anti-Oppression and Food Systems Training Classroom 232Emilie Miyauchi • Griffen Jeffries

7:30pm EST

People of Color Caucus Skyline Room

7:00am EST

Breakfast Harborside Atrium

8:00am EST

Welcome and Opening Plenary: Migration, Displacement, Organizing and Resilience: Building and Protecting Community Food Systems in the Face of Gentrification Harborside AtriumBrandy Brooks • Tobias Fox • Mark Winston Griffith • Kele Nkhereanye

10:15am EST

Economic Empowerment Through Local Agriculture and Food Systems Classroom 232Cary Junior Rural and Urban Agroecology – Models and Lessons Classroom 214Kathia Ramirez • Kirtrina Baxter • Onika Abraham

11:45am EST

Food and Farming for Organizing in Immigrant Communities Classroom 212Jessica Culley • Kathia Ramirez • Lan Dinh People’s Timeline of the Food System Skyline RoomTommy Ngeth • Michelle Nguyen • Thomas Pachecu

1:00pm EST

Lunch Harborside Atrium

2:00pm EST

Afternoon Plenary: Migration, Displacement, Organizing and Resilience: Dispossession, Restoration, and Reparations Harborside AtriumHeber Brown III • Stephanie Morningstar • Chief Vincent Mann

5:30pm EST

Dinner on your own

7:45pm EST

Creative Connections Chat and Chew New Jersey City University - Second Floor

7:00am EST

Race and Equity Breakfast Discussion Harborside AtriumKaren Spiller

8:30am EST

Organic and Sustainable Farming and the Green New Deal: What do NESAWG Members Want it to Look Like? Classroom 214Elizabeth Henderson • Patti Naylor • George Naylor • Micaiah Hall • Cruz Marquez Scaling Down for Sustainable Neighborhoods: How Baltimore's tiny farms feed their neighbors using ancient technologies Classroom 232Rodette Jones • Mariya STRAUSS • Denzel Mitchell • Kimberly Raikes

10:00am EST

Facilitating Community Engagement at the Farmers Market Classroom 212Mayra Ibarra • Mary Alice Reilly Designing for inclusivity: Creating space for people of all abilities in our local food systems Classroom 230Rachel Lindsay • Dana Spett

11:30am EST

Closing Plenary Harborside AtriumMichael Rozyne

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8:00am EST

Welcome and Opening Plenary: Migration, Displacement, Organizing and Resilience: Building and Protecting Community Food Systems in the Face of Gentrification Harborside AtriumBrandy Brooks • Tobias Fox • Mark Winston Griffith • Kele Nkhereanye