I hope you are all well! I wanted to reach out to let you know about a presentation I will be hosting with my community partner, Joanne MacKinnon of Little Mountain Neighbourhood House, at Contested Spaces, Contested Impact: 2022 Symposium on Global Community Engagement this evening. We will be leading a workshop on power and identity in food justice work, and welcome you to join if you would like. I have included the Zoom link and a brief abstract below.

Working with the Power and Positionality Wheel for Food Justice and Systems Change

6:45pm – 7:45pm

Mikaela Hudson and Joanne MacKinnon (Little Mountain Neighbourhood House)

https://ubc.zoom.us/j/67277792923?pwd=U3h5VmdpWjdQbzdzNmMrVncvOFhnUT09

Meeting ID: 672 7779 2923

Passcode: 801206

This interactive workshop invites participants to reflect on their own power and privilege using the Power & Positionality Wheel, a tool for unpacking our complex identities as learners, scholars, and activists. It uses stories from food justice work during the COVID-19 pandemic to illustrate how the Power & Positionality Wheel can center conversations about identity and equity in community partnerships, highlighting the potential for surprising and transformative results. The presenter draws on her own experiences as an academic-activist in the Building Collective Food Security Resilience Project to support participants to complete their own Power & Positionality Wheels in real time, inviting them to explore the revelatory and sometimes uncomfortable spaces that this tool for self-reflexivity generates.

Many thanks and looking forward to connecting soon,

Mikaela