Food Justice – At the Intersection of Food, Politics, Poverty, Public Health and the Environment
The 2025 Antoinette and Vincent M. Dungan Lectureship on Energy and the Environment
The Core Program is excited to host award-winning chef, author, and activist Bryant Terry for a talk on the topic of food justice. The talk is open to the entire community. First-year students are required to attend.
How can we provide healthy food choices for all Americans, regardless of income, geography or race? In this interactive talk, Bryant Terry shows us how the food we eat directly affects issues such as poverty, sustainability, and structural racism. How can we get healthier food into low income urban areas? What can each of us—whether urban dweller or suburbanite—do to eat healthier? And how will these choices affect everything from the environment to social justice? Terry doesn’t push faddish or prescribed diets. But he will occasionally sing and even cook a meal to demonstrate how simple (and delicious) making better food choices can be. Fusing food justice and personal history, Terry shows us how to improve access to fresh food in our communities: whether that community is your campus, your workplace, your neighborhood, or just your own set of friends gathered in the kitchen.
BRYANT TERRY is a chef, food justice activist, and critically acclaimed author fighting for a more just and sustainable food system. Groundbreaking and rich, his work illuminates the intersections that exist today between poverty, structural racism, and food insecurity, in order to pave a new, better path forward. In his new book Black Food, Bryant offers a stunning and deeply heartfelt tribute to Black culinary ingenuity, capturing the broad and divergent voices of the African Diaspora in a way that’s never been done before. For more information, visit:
The Antoinette and Vincent M. Dungan Lectureship on Energy and the Environment was established in 2007. With the support of an endowed fund, the lectureship series brings a distinguish speaker to campus each year to address critical issues related to the environment from a wide variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.
