{"id":8956,"date":"2022-11-30T16:44:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T23:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=8956"},"modified":"2022-11-30T16:44:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T23:44:40","slug":"mfre-speaker-heather-escobar-united-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-8956","title":{"rendered":"MFRE Speaker: Heather Escobar, United Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Escobar, LFS grad and Business Development Manager of United way will be speaking to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=mfre&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7003854175709118464\">MFRE<\/a>\u00a0students about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=foodsystems&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7003854175709118464\">Food systems<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=distribution&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7003854175709118464\">Distribution<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=supplychain&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7003854175709118464\">Supply chain<\/a> this Friday, December 02, 2022. Everyone is welcome. Everyone is welcome!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/events\/food-system-distribution-and-supply-chain\">Food System, Distribution and Supply Chain<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: Friday, December 02, 2022<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time<\/strong>: 3:00-4:30 PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong>: MCML 160<\/p>\n<p>Heather Escobar is LFS grad and is the Business Development Manager for Food Security at United Way BC.\u00a0In her previous work she developed relationships with a variety of food systems stakeholders including small scale farmers and producers, large national brands, logistics providers, and independent grocery retailers.<\/p>\n<p>Her current work includes developing and piloting a technology solution that will standardize and aggregate food need data and find\u00a0efficiencies in supply and logistics to ensure that fresh, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food reaches the communities that need it most.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Olivier<\/p>\n<p><strong>Olivier Ntwali, BSc Ag. Econ, MFRE<\/strong><br \/>\nAcademic Program Manager<br \/>\nMaster of Food and Resource Economics| Land and Food System<br \/>\nThe University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory<br \/>\nMacmillan Building \u2013 348A- 2357 Main Mall\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver BC\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z4 Canada<br \/>\nPhone: 6047718961| <a href=\"mailto:olivier.ntwali@ubc.ca%7C\">olivier.ntwali@ubc.ca|<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/\">http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Escobar, LFS grad and Business Development Manager of United way will be speaking to the MFRE\u00a0students about\u00a0Food systems,\u00a0Distribution, and\u00a0Supply chain this Friday, December 02, 2022. Everyone is welcome. Everyone is welcome! Food System, Distribution and Supply Chain Date: Friday, December 02, 2022 Time: 3:00-4:30 PM Location: MCML 160 Heather Escobar is LFS grad and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8957,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions\/8957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}