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Cary Junior

SouthEast Michigan Producers Association (SEMPA)
General Manager
Detroit, MI

Local food system specialist developing a model to provide markets for small and underserved rural farmers in food insecure neighborhoods, while creating an economic revitalization driver that empowers these enterprises and communities.

12:00pm EST

Registration New Jersey City University Lobby

1:00pm EST

Value Chain Mapping for the Food and Agriculture Sector City Hall - City of Jersey City, Caucus RoomMelissa Levy

5:00pm EST

Dinner on your own

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

9:45am EST

Break New Jersey City University - Second Floor

10:15am EST

Economic Empowerment Through Local Agriculture and Food Systems Classroom 232Cary Junior

11:30am EST

Break New Jersey City University - Second Floor

11:45am EST

A Whole Systems Approach to Institutional Supply Chain Development Classroom 214Shayna Cohen • Tania Taranovski • Nessa Richman

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

3:30pm EST

Break New Jersey City University - Second Floor

4:00pm EST

Regional Food Systems: An Empowering Framework for Change Classroom 232Kathy Ruhf • Kate Clancy

5:30pm EST

Dinner on your own

6:00pm EST

No Host Dinners Harborside Atrium

7:00am EST

Breakfast Harborside Atrium Race and Equity Breakfast Discussion Harborside AtriumKaren Spiller

8:15am EST

Break New Jersey City University - Second Floor

8:30am EST

Laying the groundwork for equity in the revitalization of the Mid-Atlantic Grain Economy Classroom 230French Price

9:45am EST

Break New Jersey City University - Second Floor

10:00am EST

Chesapeake Foodshed Network – A Framework for Change in the Food System Classroom 214Lindsay Gilmour • Ruth Tyson • Sade Anderson Solidarity Economy and the Food System Classroom 232Jessica Turner • Anne Schoeneborn • Fran Sanhueza • Emilie Miyauchi

11:15am EST

Break New Jersey City University - Second Floor

11:30am EST

Closing Plenary Harborside AtriumMichael Rozyne