We celebrate WNC EarthMates co-founders Cleaster Cotton (Cultural Conservationist, ALNUGE Codes Inventor, Educator, Farmer, Author, and Artist) and Cynde Allen (Herbalist, Farmer, Educator, and Artist). Their work is fixed in reinvigorating communal interdependence and is a soulful call to reclaim indigenous practices and recall cultural traditions within food systems through art and agriculture.
This Women's History Month, we celebrate women like Dr. Niesha Douglas, Community Based Researcher and Co-Author of “Everybody Eats: Communication and the Paths to Food Justice.”
Join the Committee on Racial Equity in the Food System (CORE) as we explore how art catalyzes radical shifts in healing, accessibility, and equity with Nori McDuffie of DurmPAC (Durham, NC).
As a pioneer in the field of farmworker advocacy and language justice, read how Ana Flores-Dolbow is making dynamic change.
Catch up with CEFS CORE Fellow, Chris Gillespie, as we learn more about his research, perspective, and his thoughts on Juneteenth as it relates to food systems.
In celebration of Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Committee on Racial Equity in the Food System (CORE) Apprentice and Artist, Isabel Lu, shares her interdisciplinary journey in creating collaborative spaces with community – through food, art, and identity.
The 2023 theme for #BlackHistoryMonth, set by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), is Black Resistance. CEFS wants to celebrate Black Resistance in connection to food and agriculture by sharing some key resources compiled by the Committee on Racial Equity in the Food System (CORE). These materials are [...]
The CEFS Program Leader on Committee of Racial Equity (CORE) in the Food System initiative will be responsible for leading the CORE team and advancing CEFS’ racial equity goals, and evaluating adoption and impacts.
CEFS is hiring a Business Associate to CEFS CORE & Educational Programs
August 24, 2015: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Greensboro, NC: A $750,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation will help get to the root of food system inequities influenced by structural racism, in a project being led by The Cooperative Extension Program at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in conjunction with the Center for Environmental [...]
