In this episode of Righting Our Relations with Food, host Miriam Sainnawap welcomes Executive Director Karen Secord and Kitchen Manager Simon Bell from the Parkdale Food Centre to talk about the problems with the food bank model, and why Parkdale is looking to transform from a food bank to a source of food revolution. Looking for a transcript? Click here!

Karen Secord has been the Executive Director of Parkdale Food Centre since 2012, and she is a storyteller, a long-time freelance writer, and former Marketing Manager. She has a passion for people and social justice, and her work is driven by the belief that food is often a forgotten human right. 

Simon Bell is Parkdale’s Kitchen Manager and a veteran of the Ottawa food scene. He has worked in kitchens from Montreal to Paris since the mid-90s, and now he helps those who enter the Parkdale Kitchen to learn, grow, and teach others their personal food stories.

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Join us again next month, when we will be talking about community cooking and the transformative power of knowledge-sharing with Najia Zewari of the Women's Wellness Cafe and the Afghan Women's Network.

*Music by Will Hydorn