2024 UNC Environmental Justice Lecture: Community Solutions to Food Apartheid: Bridging Activism, Advocacy and Academia

Save the date for the 2024 UNC Environmental Justice Lecture on Monday, April 15, 2024 at 10:30 AM ET. This year’s lecture will feature Dr. Ashley Gripper, who will join us to speak about Community Solutions to Food Apartheid: Bridging Activism, Advocacy and Academia.

Dr. Gripper is an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health and Prevention and the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Drexel University. Dr. Gripper is also an affiliate of The Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements, and Population Health Equity and her work focuses on activism and advocacy around Black people’s connections to Earth and reclamation of land-based living and organizing practices. She is active in food and land justice movements and works with urban and rural growers around the country. In addition to her work at Drexel, she is also a project team member, data analyst, and community engagement specialist for the Philadelphia Urban Agriculture Comprehensive Plan and a member of Soil Generation, a Black & Brown coalition of women and non-binary farmers and organizers working to ensure community control of land and food. Dr Gripper also serves as co-chair of the Membership and Governance working group for the Philadelphia Food Policy Advisory Council to the Mayor’s Office.

The 2024 Environmental Justice Lecture will take place in Bondurant Hall G-30 and via Zoom on Monday, April 15, 2024, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM. Register now to join in person or via Zoom.