This episode bridges the wisdom of an ecosystem innovator and a journalist to discuss the resilience of urban communities in their fight for food access. The Innovator, Erika Allen, is the Co-founder and CEO of the Urban Growers Collective. The Journalist, Mark Winston Griffith, is the Executive Director of the Brooklyn Movement Center.

What does it mean to be a community organizer? How have communities been exploited because of food?

Learn how innovating democratic food systems and intergenerational organizing in black neighborhoods creates a path toward a resilient & equitable local food system.

More about this episode:

Erika Allen @urbangrowerscollective

urbangrowerscollective.org/

Mark Winston Griffith @bkmovement

brooklynmovementcenter.org/

A Castanea Fellowship Podcast

@castaneafellowship / castaneafellowship.org/rooted-wisdom/

Conversation Guide: Aileen Suzara

@aileensuzara @sariwakitchen

Voice Talent: Mark Winston Griffith

@mwgriffith @bkmovement

Produced by: EmpathyHaus

empathyhaus.com