2012 PHENND Conference: Food Justice

Posted by on December 19, 2011

2012 PHENND Conference: Food Justice

The 2012 Annual PHENND Conference will be held Friday, February 24, 2012, at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, PA.  This year’s theme will be “Food Justice” and will feature workshops from faculty, administrators, students, and community partners from around the region.

Registration is now open!

Click here to register.  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dG4tLVIzaTUwaFN5YUlqazdwM0ZudUE6MA#gid=0

A full agenda, including workshops titles and presenters is now available here.

In the meantime, we are pleased to announce the keynote speaker, Malik Yakini, Founder and Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network.

Malik Kenyatta Yakini is an activist and educator who is committed to freedom and justice for African people in particular and humanity in general. Yakini is a founder and the Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, which operates a four acre farm in Detroit and spearheaded efforts to establish the Detroit Food Policy Council, which he chairs. He served as a member of the Michigan Food Policy Council from 2008 – 2010. He serves on the facilitation team of Undoing Racism in the Detroit Food System.

From 1990 – 2011 he served as Executive Director of Nsoroma Institute Public School Academy, one of Detroit’s leading African-centered schools. In 2006 he was honored as “Administrator of the Year” by the Michigan Association of Public School Academies. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of Timbuktu Academy of Science and Technology from 2004 – 2011. He is C.E.O. of Black Star Educational Management.

He is dedicated to working to identify and alleviate the impact of racism and white privilege on the food system. He has an intense interest in contributing to the development of an international food sovereignty movement that embraces Blacks farmers in the Americas, the Caribbean and Africa. He views the “good food revolution” as part of the larger movement for freedom, justice and equality.