Bonnetta Adeeb is the founder & president of STEAM ONWARD, Inc, a non-profit 501(c3) organization in southern Maryland, as well as the projects: Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance (UCFA) and Ujamaa Seeds. UCFA is a collective of emergent and seasoned growers who cultivate heirloom seeds and grow culturally relevant plants for food, healing, and textiles. Ujamaa recognizes the need for increased diversity in farming and the see...

About Providenza Rocco

Providenza Rocco, JD MSW, MBE is committed to highlighting the systemic injustices that have prevented thousands from freely enjoying healthy food option. Enza has made a life-long commitment as an ally to learn accurate history and work to identify, dismantle, and decolonize systems of oppression that continue to devalue and limit opportunities for growth in dense, disparate, and urban places like ...

About Chloë Waterman:

Chloë Waterman currently serves as the senior program manager for Friends of the Earth’s Climate-Friendly Food Program where she leads Friends of the Earth’s policy and markets campaigns to advance a healthy and climate-friendly food system.

About Food & Justice w/ Brenda Sanders:

Food & Justice w/ Brenda Sanders is a weekly online video series and podcast that tackles issu...

This Week's Guest

Dr. Lakshman Mulpuri, MD, Chief Executive of PlantsNourish

About Dr. Mulpuri

Dr. Lakshman (Lucky) Mulpuri graduated from the University of Michigan and Wayne State University's School of Medicine. He has served as managing director for the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization Auntie Na’s Village in Detroit, President of the Plant-Based Nutrition Group (PBNG), and is currently the ...

Join the co-founders of Vegan Soulfest, Brenda Sanders and Naijha Wright-Brown to learn about the exciting plans for Vegan SoulFest's long awaited return -- this weekend!

Vegan SoulFest, Baltimore’s premier vegan food and music festival is returning this weekend, Friday, August 19 to Sunday, August 21, after a two year COVID hiatus! This year the festival is  expanding to three days this year to give attendees more ti...

In this episode, Brenda interviews Dr. Christina Schiavoni, PhD, longtime food sovereignty activist and senior communications coordinator for Grassroots International.
 
 About Dr. Christina Schiavoni, PhD

Christina M. Schiavoni is Grassroots International’s Senior Communications Coordinator. A longtime food sovereignty activist, she was involved in the founding of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance and the Food So...

Join Food & Justice w/ Brenda Sanders for our first full-length interview of Season 2, featuring Tracye McQuirter, MPH 

Premiering Friday, July 22, 5:30 PM EDT / 2:30 PM PDT


About Tracye
 
 Tracye McQuirter is a 34-year vegan, best-selling author, award-winning public health nutritionist, and vegan trailblazer. She is the founder of 10 Million Black Vegan Women and the author of By Any Greens Nece...

Did you miss the livestream of Brenda Sanders' Veganniversary event? Did you catch it? Either way, you're in luck! 

This edited version adds music, veganniversary videos from leading vegan food justice activists and scholars, cuts slow transitions, and fixes technical glitches in the livestream.

Featuring special appearances by Carol Adams (The Sexual Politics of Meat), Pattrice Jones (VINE Sanctuary), D...

FOOD & JUSTICE w/ BRENDA SANDERS

Join us for our final episode of 2021 with our guest Dr. Milton Mills of Plant-Based Nation!

ABOUT DR. MILTON MILLS

Dr. Milton Mills is a graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine and a practicing critical care physician in the Washington, DC metro area.  Dr. Mills’ compassionate and encompassing worldview has led him to apply his knowledge about preventative healthcar...

Special Episode:  Jessica Carter of Afro-Vegan Society interviews Brenda Sanders!

To mark the premiere of “They’re Trying to Kill Us!”, a new documentary featuring  our host, we’re turning the tables this week, with Brenda’s Afro-Vegan Society colleague interviewing her about her work, her objectives, and the origins of her commitment to food justice.

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On this week's episode, Brenda interviews Nicoletta Batini editor of The Economics of Sustainable Food and lead evaluator of the International Monetary Fund Office of Independent Evaluation.

ABOUT THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE FOOD

The Economics of Sustainable Food is a new Island Press book edited by economist Nicoletta Batini.

Producing food industrially like we do today causes tremendous ...

Interview with Marvin Hayes, Founder & Director, Baltimore Compost Collective

ABOUT MARVIN HAYES

Marvin Hayes has been a youth educator and mentor for over 20 years. His professional experiences include running recreation programming, alternate education youth consoling, mediation services, and youth workforce development. He has a patience and a presence with the youth that cannot be taught in a classroom but has ...

ABOUT LORIKIM ALEXANDER

Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, LoriKim Alexander has dedicated her life to working for social and environmental justice, specifically organizing around justice for LGBTQIA+ Black, Brown and Indigenous Communities. LoriKim’s work in anthropology and as a trained biologist has facilitated her in centering initiatives against environmental racism and for the implementation of environmental educati...

Interview w/ Kanav Kathuria of Maryland Food & Prison Abolition Project

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Kanav Kathuria’s work lies in the intersection of abolitionism, public health, and food sovereignty. He is a 2019 Open Society Institute Baltimore Community Fellow and the co-founder of the The Maryland Food & Prison Abolition Project (formerly the Farm to Prison Project), a Baltimore-based organization that connects urban and s...

FEATURED GUEST: 

LeeAnn Morrissette, communications and culture coordinator for the National Black Food & Justice Alliance.

You can watch and listen at at http://fjpodcast.com.

Video Premiere: Thursday, September 30, 7PM EDT / 4 PM PDT

Audio (Podcast) Premiere: Friday, October 1, 5 AM EDT / 2 AM PDT

Can't watch live? No problem! The episode will be on the Food & Justice website homepage all week and thereafter wil...

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Kanav Kathuria’s work lies in the intersection of abolitionism, public health, and food sovereignty. He is a 2019 Open Society Institute Baltimore Community Fellow and the co-founder of the The Maryland Food & Prison Abolition Project (formerly the Farm to Prison Project), a Baltimore-based organization that connects urban and small-scale farms to prisons to use food as a tool for resistance.

Join Brenda Sanders, co-founder of Vegan Soulfest, Thrive Baltimore, The Greener Kitchen, and founder of the The Afro-Vegan Society as she interviews activists, thought leaders, experts and influencers working on real world solutions to pressing global food, environmental and social justice issues.

Food and Justice is sponsored by #DefundBigMeat.


ABOUT AMY VAN SAUN

Amy is a Senior Attorney in the Center for Food Safety...

ABOUT OUR GUEST:

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 co-founder and the Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, which operates a seven-acre farm in Detroit and spearheaded efforts to establish the Detroit Food Policy Council, which he chaired from December 2009 - May ...

ABOUT OUR GUEST:
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 co-founder and the Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, which operates a seven-acre farm in Detroit and spearheaded efforts to establish the Detroit Food Policy Council, which he chaired from December 2009 - May 2012....