This PowerPoint presentation assists the discussion from the second City Exchange Project session. This sessions focuses on Race, Food Justice, and Policy Implications/Implementation. CRFS Project participants from 6 US cities participated in this discussion.

1. City Exchange Project
Race, Food Justice, and Policy Implications and
Implementation
November 17, 2014

2. What is the City Exchange Project?
• The City Exchange Project idea sprung from a need to be able to
discuss issues and topics on food systems with other organizations
across the US.
• Many times, the only way inter-city dialogue is created between
staff/leaders of different community organizations is through
conference networking.
• The City Exchange Project seeks to electronically convene leaders from
across the country and engage them in relevant and useful
conversations on pressing and pertinent food systems issues from the
comfort of your own office.
Click above for CRFS website

3. Guiding Questions
• Healthy food access projects in participants communities'
• What are the objectives of your project?
• What are some obstacles and successes related to this project?
• Is there a component of sustainability after this project is
completed?
• Do you have recommendations based on findings from your
project?
• Changes and/or future direction
• Are there racial disparities in access to healthy foods?
• Are there policies that affect such disparities?
• Are there examples or experiences with food retail redlining in
communities?
• Examples or experiences in overcoming these types of policies,
disparities, and perceptions?

4. Guiding Questions
• Does race affect local government action as it relates to
urban/suburban ag ownership or access?
• Livestock ordinances and other policies
• In some cities -- Detroit is a prime example -- tax incentives and
subsidies are extended to large, chain supermarkets to locate
within the city or certain neighborhoods. What can be done to
leverage this kind of municipal support to local, homegrown
food allies?
• Going back to the first question, what is the role of local foods
in healthy food access? Local and organic food gets the
reputation for being elitist because of higher prices. However,
the reality is that the farmers that grow this food aren’t making
much money. Does anyone have examples or experiences with
projects or initiatives that seek to address healthy and local food
access to low-income citizens while maintaining profitable price
levels for farmers?

5. Facilitator
• George Reistad
• Assistant Policy Director – Michael Fields Agricultural
Institute
• Communications Coordinator – Community and Regional
Food Systems Project

6. Cedar Rapids Participant
• Sonia Kendrick – Executive Director/Founding Farmer, Feed Iowa
First

7. Sonia Kendrick
• Sonia Kendrick is the founding
farmer, a combat veteran,
agronomist, and working
towards a masters degree in
sustainable food systems but
mainly just an informed and
concerned mother of two
amazing children.
• “Whomever controls our food
controls us and our democratic
right to rule ourselves is rooted
in our ability to feed ourselves.”
Sonia Kendrick

8. Feed Iowa First
• Mission: To confront food insecurity today and
tomorrow by growing food and farmers.
• Feed Iowa First has 12 farms in Linn Co. Iowa. We grow on underutilized
land around churches and business. We also grow on 16 acres of donated
farmland. We do not have total yield numbers yet but it is well over 20,000 lbs
of vegetables. We currently only have one beginning farmer but we have
worked this season with seven other beginning farmers. All of the produce
that we grow is donated to food pantries and shelters as well as meals on
wheels. We do not charge for the food that we donate.
• Our current project is building a walipini fish farm next to a low income
school. We are planning to take the waste from the school and feed it to black
soldier flies then feed the black soldier flies to the fish and have the fish
connected to a hydroponic system that will allow us to grow lettuce for the
school to have a salad bar.
• Our goal is to get 500 acres of underutilized land turned into vegetable
production that would provide the almost 26,000 food insecure in our county
with the bare minimum of vegetables a day. We believe that the next
generation of farmers are in the city and need to be brought out of the city as
a social effort in order to ensure that we are fed into the future. We are also
advocates for teaching all children how to feed themselves – A skill that
should be as fundamental as writing their names.

9. Madison Participants
• Carrie Edgar - Department Head & Community Food Systems
Educator for Dane County Cooperative Extension
• Chris Brockel – Executive Director – FairShare CSA Coalition
• Michael Gay – Senior VP, Economic Development – Madison
Region Economic Partnership
Carrie Edgar Chris Brockel Michael Gay

10. Madison Participants
• Mark Woulf – City of Madison Food and Alcohol Policy
Coordinator, Co-Chair Madison Food Policy Council
• Margaret Krome – Policy Program Director – Michael Fields
Agricultural Institute, CRFS Project Partner
Mark Woulf Margaret Krome

11. Carrie Edgar
• Carrie Edgar is the Department Head & Community Food
Systems Educator for Dane County UW-Extension. Her work
focuses on food systems and community capacity building.
Her experience includes community development, grower
education, food & farm entrepreneurship, food policy, and
school & community garden development.
• Carrie serves as staff of the Dane County Food Council and is
a member of the Madison Food Policy Council. Carrie started
the Dane County Food Coalition to bring together food system
organizations to develop a shared vision and work more
collaboratively.

12. Chris Brockel
• Chris Brockel is the Executive Director of FairShare CSA Coalition. FairShare
CSA Coalition is a non-profit organization working to making community
supported agriculture (CSA) more accessible by linking people who care about
the food they eat to local farmers who grow top-quality food for their local
communities. Through education, outreach, community building and resource
sharing, FairShare is committed to raising the bar on the quality and accessibility
of CSA shares in Southern Wisconsin. FairShare has a network of 50 endorsed
organic farms throughout central and southern Wisconsin and provides farmer
education and support, community education and outreach, and low income
access to CSA through their Partner Shares program.
Click FairShare logo for
organizational website

13. Michael Gay
• Prior to joining MadREP in May 2013, Michael P. Gay, CEcD, served as the
Director of the Center for New Ventures (CNV) at UW-Platteville from
2011-2013. The CNV was created in May 2011 to help the university and its
expansive educational resources become more entrepreneurial, promote
research, and increase grant relationships. Before his tenure at UW-Platteville,
Michael worked for the City of Madison for over a decade as the
Business Development Coordinator, serving as the official liaison between
city government and the Madison business community.
Click MADRep logo for
organizational website

14. Food Policy Councils
Carrie Edgar and Mark Woulf
• As members of the Madison Food
Policy Council, Mark Woulf (co-chair)
and Carrie Edgar help shape
decisions on how the City of
Madison addresses food systems
related issues within the community.
Click photo above for Madison Food
Policy Council Goals and Objectives
• The Dane County Food Council is a
committee of the Dane County Board.
DCFC was created to encourage active
collaboration to explore issues and
develop recommendations to create an
economically, socially, and
environmentally sustainable local food
system for the Dane County region. Click above for DCFC
Action Plan

15. Margaret Krome
• Margaret Krome is Policy Program Director for the Michael Fields
Agricultural Institute in East Troy, Wisconsin. She helps develop state and
local programs and policies supporting environmentally sound, profitable,
and socially responsible agriculture and helps the National Sustainable
Agriculture Coalition coordinate its annual national grassroots campaign to
fund federal programs prioritized each year by NSAC’s member groups.
Ms. Krome conducts workshops nationwide on grant writing and using
federal programs to support sustainable agriculture. She sits on the Board
the National Center for Appropriate Technology and writes a bi-weekly
editorial column for The Capital Times in Madison.
Click MFAI logo for organizational
website

16. Chicago Participant
• Erika Allen – Growing Power – Chicago, Chair – Chicago Food
Policy Advisory Council
Photo Courtesy – Growing a Greener World
Click photo above for Growing Power Website

17. Chicago Food Policy Advisory Council
• As Co-chair of the CFPAC,
Erika and other board
members facilitate the
development of responsible
policies that improve access
for Chicago residents to
culturally appropriate,
nutritionally sound, and
affordable food that is
grown through
environmentally sustainable
practices.

18. Detroit Participant
• Kibibi Blount-Dorn - Program Manager, Detroit Food Policy
Council

19. Kibibi Blount-Dorn
• Kibibi Blount-Dorn is currently the Coordinator for the Detroit
Food Policy Council. She has a B.S. in Urban and Regional
Planning from Michigan State University, and a Masters of
Urban Planning from Wayne State University.
• She is a lifelong Detroit resident, and has been a community
development advocate and community gardener since she was a
teenager. She has previously worked with Detroit Summer,
Garden Resource Program Collaborative, Center for Urban
Studies at Wayne State University, Highland Park Development
Corporation, Eastern Market Corporation, and the Detroit Black
Community Food Security Network.

20. Detroit Food Policy Council
• The creation of the Detroit Food Policy Council (DFPC) stemmed
from a directive included in the Detroit Food Security Policy (DFSP)
that the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network drafted.
• Detroit City Council members adopted and approved all the
recommendations in the DFSP in 2008-2009 and the Detroit Food
Policy Council had its first meeting in late 2009.
• One of the largest issues that DFPC and other community-based orgs
and coalitions are working on is equitable access to city-owned land
(about 60,000 parcels)
Click above for more info on DFPC Click above for 2012 DFPC Public
Land Sales Report

21. Milwaukee Participants
• Marcia Caton-Campbell – Executive Director, Center for Resilient
Cities
• Tatiana Maida – Obesity Prevention Manager, Sixteenth Street
Community Health Centers
• Jen Casey – Director of Development and Communications
Marcia Caton-Campbell Tatiana Maida

22. Marcia Caton-Campbell
• Marcia Caton Campbell, MCRP, PhD, is the Executive Director
of the Center for Resilient Cities. In February 2011, Marcia
published Urban Agriculture: Growing Healthy, Sustainable
Communities, Planning Advisory Service Report No. 563,
coauthored with Kimberly Hodgson and Martin Bailkey
(Chicago, IL: American Planning Association).
• She has previously served on the boards of directors of
Growing Power, the Community Food Security Coalition, the
Milwaukee Environmental Consortium, the Madison Area
Community Land Trust, and the Friends of Troy Gardens (now
Community GroundWorks at Troy Gardens in Madison, WI).
Marcia is also the Center for Resilient Cities organizational
representative to the Milwaukee Food Council.

23. Center for Resilient Cities
• A 501c3 not-for-profit organization founded in 1996
with offices in Madison and Milwaukee, the Center for
Resilient Cities builds robust and thriving urban
communities that are healthy, just, economically viable
and environmentally sound.
• The CRC has been and currently is involved with
many community-based food system projects. Their
role as experts in a variety of fields offers support,
guidance, and technical assistance, which assists in the
creation of communities that are good for people and
good for the environment.
• CRC is involved with the Milwaukee Food Council
and is working on analyzing, recommending, and
building on some of the food systems findings from
the City of Milwaukee’s “ReFresh Milwaukee” report. Click above for
ReFresh Milwaukee
Food Systems Report

24. Jen Casey
• Jennifer Casey connects heritage foodways to healthier people and
places. She brings her experience as a registered dietitian, writer, speaker,
gardener and professional cook to her many health and food advocacy
efforts. She had long been a fan, shopper, and supporter of Fondy before
joining the team in July of 2014. Before coming to Fondy, she ran the
Diabetes and Community Health programs at Milwaukee’s only American
Indian Health Center, where she had the opportunity to learn about, and
incorporate into programming, traditional foods as a source of wellness.
• She grew up in the Midwest, but spent time in Washington, California, New
York and Vermont before moving back to the heartland to relish its wild
asparagus, heritage apples, grass-fed dairy, amazing farms and markets and
fresh water. Jennifer volunteers her time with several food advocacy
efforts; including in her roles as a Slow Food USA Regional Governor and
chair of the Slow Food Midwest Ark of Taste Committee. Jennifer is a
graduate of the University of Illinois-Chicago and the Natural Gourmet
Institute-New York and she now lives in nearby Riverwest with her family.

25. Fondy Food Center’s Mission: We connect neighborhoods to fresh local food
– from farm to market to table – so that children learn better, people live healthier,
and communities embrace cultural food traditions.
“The ‘solution’ is not one size fits all—it should
be a quilt of solutions made up of fabric that you
hand on hand and not one blanket woven out of
the same thread. What works in one community,
one place, will not work everywhere.” -Young
Kim, Fondy Food Center, Executive Director
Fondy Farmers Market:
• Oldest and most diverse
market in MKE
• Located in MKE’s North
Side—a neighborhood with
high rates of hunger/food
insec. & poverty
• 1st Market in WI to accept
EBT
• In 2013 over 50K in food
stamp dollars redeemed at
market
• Celebration of community
& culture are central to
Fondy

26. Fondy Food Center’s Mission: We connect neighborhoods to fresh
local food – from farm to market to table – so that children learn better,
people live healthier, and communities embrace cultural food traditions.
FondyFarm Project:
Started in 2011 to support the
primarily Hmong farmers
selling at Market
Farm offers affordable,
quality,long term farm leases as
well as amenities (access to
tractors, irrigation, hoophouse)
and technical support from
farm director
Fair food-from farm to table

27. Tatiana Maida
• Tatiana works at Sixteenth Community Health Centers where
she developed and currently manages Healthy Choices
department, an Obesity intervention that strives to improve the
nutritional and physical activity environment of Latino and low-income
families through comprehensive family education and
strong community advocacy. Her expertise and passion with
public health, program development, education, community
engagement and cultural competency began in Bolivia, her native
country, where she worked for several organizations dedicated to
rural, indigenous communities. She has a bachelor’s degree in
Communications and a minor in Social Development. She is also
a Nia instructor.

28. Sixteenth Street Community
Health Centers
Sixteenth Street Community
Health Center has provided
quality health care, health
education and social services on
Milwaukee’s multi-cultural south
side since 1969. The Center is
recognized as a leader in the
community, in terms of the
excellent care provided as well as
advocacy for public health issues.
Click above for SSCHC website

29. Boston Participant
• Sutton Kiplinger – Greater Boston Regional Director – The Food Project

30. Sutton Kiplinger
• As Greater Boston Regional Director, Sutton oversees strategy,
partnerships, and operations of The Food Project's programming
and agricultural production in Boston and Lincoln.
• Sutton Kiplinger spent her early career at Health Leads, a nationally-recognized
non-profit that seeks to catalyze fundamental change in
how the health care system addresses the social determinants of
health. In seven years there, she served as the organization’s New
York Site Director, its first national Director of Programs, and then
as Executive Director of its flagship site in Boston.
• In 2010, in an effort to better understand the production-side
realities of the food issues she saw at play in the health sector,
Sutton transitioned into full-time production farming. She spent
three seasons at Dandelion Spring Farm, a fully diversified organic
farm in Maine, and at Waltham Fields Community Farm, a 500-
share vegetable CSA farm in Massachusetts, before coming to The
Food Project in October 2013.

31. The Food Project
• Youth and adults, in partnership, realizing a community vision for a sustainable food
system.
• Engages 120 youth employees annually through a nationally-recognized youth
development model. These youth, in intentionally diverse cohorts, grow food on our
urban and suburban farms, distribute it to mission-driven and revenue-generating
outlets, build and maintain community growing spaces, and engage others in learning
about food justice through an anti-oppression lens.
• Has incubated a variety of policy, systems, and environment initiatives for local and
national roll-out, including the Boston Bounty Bucks matching program and the
Real Food Challenge.
• Currently co-leading a community food planning process in Boston’s Dudley
neighborhood, in collaboration with the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
(DSNI) and Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE), to elevate
residents’ vision for their neighborhood food system and design action steps toward
it.
Click The Food Project Logo for website