Name: Atticus Barocas

Social Justice Group: Access to Healthy Foods

Date of Fieldwork: February 17, 2022

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Interview With lauren Ornelas (Founder Of The Food Empowerment Project)

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

We met with lauren Ornelas from The Food Empowerment Project. She founded the Food Empowerment Project in 2007 when this issue was much less talked about. We learned about how factory farming is killing our oceans, how fast food chains are praying on people who cant go to normal grocery stores. We also learned about how the government considers bodegas and delis grocery stores to make people think that low income areas are not low income. One thing we also learned about was that higher end neighborhoods grocery stores stay open later. And lower income neighborhoods grocery stores close a lot sooner.

The Food Empowerment Project is important to our topic because they do everything. Whether its doing things against factory farming, commercial fishing, or the way fast food restaurants are praying on low income neighborhoods. I think that what they do is super important and they should keep doing this work locally and around america.