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2012 Summit Agenda & Worksessions
Conference Agenda
8:00am -9:00am Check-in and Coffee/Tea
9:00am -9:15am Welcome by Kat West, Multnomah County Office of Sustainability & Sonia Manhas, Multnomah County Health Department
9:15am -9:30am Remarks by Multnomah County Chair Jeff Cogen
9:30am -10:00am Rev. Dr. W. G. Hardy, Keynote Speaker "A Call to Action: Equity and the Food Movement"
10:00am – 10: 10am Remarks by Congressman Earl Blumenauer, & Multnomah County District 3 Commissioner Judy Shiprack
Transition Break: Remarks by Weston Miller, Extension Service, Oregon State University
10:10am-11:30am Breakout #1
- Room 103/104 Action Communities for Health Innovation and Environmental Change
- Room 105 Food Justice: the View From the Fields
- Room 106 Urban Farming within the Non-Profit Model: Strategies, Tactics, Benefits, and Limitations.
- Room 107 Making Your Work Count: Measuring Food Justice, Winning Friends and Influencing People
- Room 108 Hungry for More: How Can the 2012 Farm Bill and Other Nutrition and Agriculture Policy Can Better Support Oregon?
- Room 109 The Next Generation of Oregon Farmers: Barriers and Opportunities for Beginning Agricultural Entrepreneurs
11:30 am-1:10pm Seasonal Buffet Lunch
Plenary Session: Food Justice in Action: A Discussion with Local Leaders
Commissioner Nick Fish, City of Portland
Lisa Sedler, New Seasons Market
Corliss McKeever, African American Health Coalition
Larry Thompson, Thompson Farms
1:10pm – 2:30pm Breakout #2
- Room 103/104 Growing Food Justice in the Urban Farming Movement
- Room 105 Active Public Participation and Advocacy at the Systems Level
- Room 106 Creating a Native American Food Hub in Portland: The Native American Market (NAM) Initiative
- Room 108 Understand the Barriers Seniors and Disabled Face in Shopping for Groceries
- Room 107 Partnering Gleaning Organizations with Regional Food Banks
- Room 109 Working to build an inclusive local foodshed
2:40pm-4:00pm Breakout #3
- Room 103/104 Take the Wheel: Food as an Economic Driver
- Room 105 Growing Revolution: Occupying Portland's Food System From Seed To Table
- Room 106 Transforming the Food Environment at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility: Promoting Healthy Eating Through Local Food Production, Policy and Environmental Change
- Room 107 Better Together: Building A Network to Support Kitchen Opportunities
- Room 108 Bridging the Gap between Affordable Housing Residents and Farmer's Markets
- Room 109 Striving for the Promotion of Equity & Justice
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