Holly Freishtat, Baltimore City’s Food Policy Director, explains to a panel hosted by the Atlantic on health inequities why a study from John Hopkins University helped change some of the language used when discussing neighborhood access to healthful food in the city of Baltimore.
Regardless of what you choose to call it, it describes a crisis that the Black Church Food Security Network is creatively–and faithfully–responding to. Darriel Harris, co-founder of the network, also shared the good news of this extraordinary project with the panel.
Watch the video here.
Meghan Murphy-Gill is a food writer and editor and the managing editor of U.S. Catholic magazine. She specializes in food, travel, culture, and religion and spirituality. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine, and the Chicago Tribune. She’s the former editor of Drive Thru, Gapers Block’s food and dining section and has previously served as assistant editor, associate editor, and web editor of U.S. Catholic. Meghan holds a B.A. in Journalism from James Madison University and an M.A. in Theology from Catholic Theological Union, where she was a Bernardin Scholar.
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