Connect in person with community and movement leaders, policy activists and advocates, federal legislators, and other funders who share a vision of an equitable and sustainable food system for all. Dig in to promising solutions and strategies for agriculture and food systems that address the roots and consequences of racial inequities, socio-economic and geographic divides, and community disenfranchisement and disinvestment.
We’ll look at the connections – and disconnects – between the needs we hear from frontline leaders and funding from both federal and philanthropic sources. With two blocks of half-day site visits, we’ll meet with lawmakers on Capitol Hill and get out to see how residents of the capital city are digging into this work on the ground.