Food Justice Series: 2017-2018
In 2017, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health’s Mark Bittman, former New York Times columnist and bestselling author, launched the Food Justice series. See below for information on the guest speakers who joined him during the 2017-2018 academic year.
Why Food Is a Public Health Issue
September 11, 2017
- Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, dean and DeLamar Professor of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, senior vice president of Columbia University Medical Center, and professor of Epidemiology and Medicine
- Mark Bittman, author and lecturer at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
A Short History of Food and Humans
September 18, 2017
- Ricardo Salvador, PhD, director and senior scientist for the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists
Global Food System and Labor
September 25, 2017
- Leah Penniman, co-director of Soul Fire Farm
- Greg Asbed, co-founder of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers/Fair Food Program
- Jose Oliva, co-director of the Food Chain Workers Alliance
Food and the Environment
October 2, 2017
- Anna Lappe, founder and director of Small Planet Institute
- Navina Khanna, director of HEAL Food Alliance
Climate Change and Food Systems
October 9, 2017
- Bill McKibben, senior advisor and co-founder of 350.org
The Challenges of Eating Animals
October 16, 2017
- Daisy Freund, director of Farm Animal Welfare at ASPCA
- Bob Martin, program director of the Food System Policy Program for the Center for a Livable Future at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Paul Greenberg, bestselling author of Four Fish and American Catch
The Case of Food in NYC
October 23, 2017
- Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and associate professor of clinical Epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
US Food Policy in the Trump Era
October 30, 2017
- Rep. Chellie Pingree, Congresswoman from Maine’s 1st Congressional District
Food as a Global Commodity
November 6, 2017
- Timothy A. Wise, director of the Land and Food Rights Program at Small Planet Institute, senior research fellow with the Global Development and Environment Institute's Globalization and Sustainable Development Program at Tufts University, and author of the forthcoming book, Feeding Illusions: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Future of Food
- Jennifer Clapp, PhD, professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo in Ontario
- Rajasvini Bhansali, executive director of Thousand Currents
The Food Movement, at Home and Abroad
November 13, 2017
- Nick Saul, co-founder, president and CEO of Community Food Centres Canada
Regional Food and Policy
November 20, 2017
- Tom Colicchio, chef and owner of Crafted Hospitality, co-founder and executive board member of Food Policy Action, and head judge and executive producer of Top Chef
- Paula Daniels, founder of the Los Angeles Food Policy Council
- Kathleen Finlay, president of Glynwood and founder of Pleiades