Designing a Public Food System
Debbie Field
Food advocate, social activist, educator
Date: Thursday, March 23rd, 2017
Time: 3PM – 4PM
Location: Food, Nutrition and Health 300
Light refreshments provided
Join Debbie Field in a session designed to workshop what a public food system would look like. Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students are welcome.
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Debbie Field is an international leader in creating a more socially just and environmentally sustainable food system. As executive director of FoodShare, she has generated innovative social justice, social enterprise and direct service solutions to problems at all levels of the food system and built coalitions for change. FoodShare has pioneered programs now replicated across Canada and around world including the Good Food Box, Mobile and Good Food Markets, School Grown, Field to Table Catering and Food Justice programs.
A social activist, Debbie Field began her career in 1976, teaching at Brampton’s Sheridan College. The first equal opportunities officer for a union in Canada, Debbie was the first woman to work in Stelco’s Coke Ovens since WWII after a successful campaign and human-rights complaint. Her many accolades have included OPSEU Bread and Roses Award, Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Medal, a Vital People Award, Darchai Noam Social Justice Scholar in Residence, and a Toronto Green Leader. In June 2016 Debbie received an honorary doctor of laws degree from York University, recognizing both her and FoodShare’s significant contributions.