2022 Webinar Series: Examining Whiteness in the Food System pt. 2
Additional Resources:
NC Food System Resilience Strategy
Communities in Partnership case study
Recomended Reading:
EFOD Origin Story and Brown Paper
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Learn More About Jen:
My current role as Director of Strategic Initiatives at Duke University’s World Food Policy Center focuses on people-first policy development for equitable food policy.
In addition to my position with the World Food Policy Center, I contract with the Biwa-Emergent Equity, facilitating white caucuses in nonprofit and philanthropic organizations. I also contract with DEI Works Collective, in the capacity of a racial equity facilitator. I concentrate specifically on the role of white women and our complicity in upholding white supremacy culture.
Prior to my current work, I spent twelve years at the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation, serving as the Senior Program Officer for Healthy Living and the Director of Strategic Partnerships, focusing on increasing access to safe active environments and on providing sources for healthy, locally sourced food.
I serve on the Board of the Sustainable Agriculture and Food System Funders Network and Communities in Partnership. I also serve as the Chair of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems Advisory Board, Secretary of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation Board of Directors.