Better Food Futures Forum

9:30 a.m. – 10:45 p.m.

Food & the Humanities

Lauren Shook: Literary Perspectives

With over 15 years’ experience in higher education, she is a teacher-scholar focused on connecting literature, culture, and other forms of art to our lived experiences. Being attentive to students’, staffs’, and faculties’ material conditions is key for sustainability within higher ed.

Frances Bottenberg: Philosophical Insights

A Higher Education professional and Philosophy PhD specializing in high-ability admissions and scholarship workflows, co-curricular program development, and SOTL-informed curriculum design and instruction.

11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Nallah Muhammad
“We Are Everything That We Need”

Based in Greensboro, North Carolina- Nallah Muhammad is a proud NCAT Alumni with a degree in Agriculture and Environmental systems. With experience in Nonprofits, Parks and Rec, and Environmental Education; Nallah seeks to provide her community with the most positive shape shifting experience they can receive being outdoors. Furthermore, she takes pride in incorporating yoga as well as exercising into farming, based on her certified background.

12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.

Food Security
James Gardner: The Desert Gardener

James has an innate ability to spontaneously interact with ethnically diverse populations and all age groups. He believes teamwork leads to organizational cohesiveness. He is the father of five children, is an educator in the Guilford Country Schools, and serves as the Director of the Community Garden Project.

Laura Oxner: Food Waste Recovery

As a dedicated Director of Food Recovery Laura thrives at the intersection of innovation and impact. Her work centers on transforming ideas into action, with a special focus on building sustainable, effective food systems. Striving daily towards my motto of “Feeding not Wasting”.

2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Fieldtrip – Community Farm
Peaceful Seeds of Warnersville
Sign up required: go.uncg.edu/warnersville

5:00 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Documentary Film
Screening & Reception
Food Inc, 2 (2023, 95mins)

The groundbreaking Oscar®-nominated documentary Food, Inc. ignited a cultural conversation about the multinational corporations that control our food system at enormous cost to our planet, workforce and health. In the well-timed sequel, Food, Inc. 2, comes “back for seconds” to reveal how corporate consolidation has gone unchecked by our government, leaving us with a highly efficient yet shockingly vulnerable food system dedicated only towards increasing profits.