In this engaging web series, PBS explores hot-button phrases and what they really mean. The Welfare episode includes a discussion from scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, who coined the term “intersectionality;” along with appearances from Jordan Temple of MTV’s Decoded, and journalist Tracie McMillan.
Restaurant Workers Say #MeToo
Mother Jones’ The Bite Podcast • Dec. 1, 2017
Mother Jones’ Tom Philpott writes up our discussion of sexual harassment and #MeToo in America’s restaurant industry for MJ’s food podcast, The Bite, drawing on my recent New York Times opinion piece, “When the Kitchen Isn’t Safe For Women.”
Undercover Reporting: Behind the Scenes
Logan Symposium • April 28, 2017
It was a real honor to share the stage with Ailsa Chang (“Planet Money”), Suki Kim (Without You, There is No Us), Shane Bauer (Mother Jones), and James Jones (Frontline) to discuss the complexities of undercover reporting at the Logan Symposium on Investigative Reporting hosted by the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley.
Explaining White Resentment to a Black Audience
Wake Up With WURD • Feb. 3, 2017
I had a fascinating conversation this morning with radio host Solomon Jones in Philadelphia, taking my first (public) stab at explaining white resentment to a predominantly black audience. Check out his show, Wake Up With Wurd.
Southern Foodways Symposium Lecture:
Jiffy to Maseca
Southern Foodways Alliance Symposium • Oct. 14, 2016
Jiffy corn muffin mix is the second-most sold dry grocery item in the U.S. Maseca is used in more than two-thirds of all corn tortillas in Mexico. Yet the food world tends to sneer at them both. By tracing the origin stories of these two iconic corn mixes, I explore how America’s current romance with kitchen labor can edify longstanding inequities of race and gender—and remind us that we live, and eat, in the present.
Full text of my talk can be read here.
Is Healthy Living Only for the Rich?
Zócalo Public Square and The California Wellness Foundation • July 28, 2015
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Americans are eating healthier, smoking less, exercising more, and living longer than ever before–but only if they can afford it. Continue reading “Is Healthy Living Only for the Rich?”
Obese, Yet Malnourished
Thank You Democracy • March 18, 2015
I enjoyed chiming in with Jefferson Davis for this radio show, Thank You Democracy, out in Portland, OR. You can listen to the whole show here.
Stateside with Cynthia Canty
Michigan Radio • Dec. 8, 2014
When Whole Foods opened in Detroit, there were questions on whether or not the vast majority of Detroit could afford the upscale grocer. Goals were set into place to make the grocer more accessible to the citizens of Detroit. The results, however, have been a mixed bag.
Here, I discuss piece for Slate and FERN, “Can Whole Foods Change the Way Poor People Eat?” with Michigan Radio’s Cynthia Canty.
HuffPost Live: Can Whole Foods Feed the Poor?
HuffPost Live • Nov. 21, 2014
“Is it Whole Foods’ job to help poor people eat well?” they asked me on HuffPost Live.
“Only when the CEO starts saying it is,” says I.
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Food, Health and Place: Why Equity Matters
James Beard Foundation Food Conference • October 28, 2014
At this year’s James Beard Foundation Food Conference, “Health and Food: Is Better Food a Prescription for a Healthier America?” I had the pleasure of moderating a panel on Food, Health & Place: Why Equity Matters, with leading experts in food and equity.
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