Thu, Feb 15
|Zoom
JEDI Community of Practice February Meeting
This is a learning community of individuals working to foster and support practices of racial justice, equity, inclusion, and diversity in the outdoors and environmental work. Bi-monthly, we come together to learn, dive into different topics, hear from guest speakers, and grow as a community!
Time & Location
Feb 15, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST
Zoom
About the Event
JEDI Community of Practice (CoP)
Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
In February, we'll be joined by a special guest speaker, Co-Executive Director of FoodChain, Leandra Foreman. FoodChain is a unique nonprofit organization that has grown, changed, adapted, and pivoted since its inception in 2011. Much of the growth was planned from the beginning, but many of the ways that it has come about have been in direct response to needs from the community and from a changing food landscape. Leandra will talk with our community about building in flexibility in order to respond to the changing needs of our community as part of a justice-minded approach to nonprofit work.
Leandra Forman has been at FoodChain since May of 2015. For the first two years she worked as the farm manager, however she transitioned to overseeing the Processing Kitchen and Food Sector Job Training Program in 2017. When the pandemic shut…