Name: Bayo Amari Maathey
Social Justice Group: Access to Healthy Foods
Date of Fieldwork: February 2, 2022
Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Kate Foley (The Food Trust)
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?[:: :
On Wednesday, Feb 2, my group and I (Atticus Barocas and Theo Cornick) met with Katherine (Kate) Foley from the Food Trust Organization. We talked about access to healthful and nutritious foods around the country. The Food Trusts’ goal is to put more access to healthy and nutritious food in areas that don’t have it. We learned a lot about how they are achieving this goal of making access to healthy and nutritious food around America. She spoke on the systemic relation to food injustices and how it needs to be more shown in the media. She stated that there are a lot of stats within the government that don’t show the full story, and she and her team are working on helping this. The main areas they work are in Philadelphia and Camden (a suburb in New Jersey not far from Philadelphia). They have goals for different states and different approaches to those certain states. This is very crucial to our project because it gives us an idea one what is truly happening when it comes to access to healthful and nutritious food. The Food Trust was founded in 1992 and is still doing important work till this day.
My personal reaction to this interview was how in-depth and thought out these organizations have to be. There are so many layered issues to be solved it’s hard to attack everything. Kate had a wonderful interview and she was very resourceful. My knowledge feels further developed. In review, our first interview was much more on the topic than we thought it would be on (food injustices for places with poverty). Overall this was great.
