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program is a partnered program across academia, 9 farm and community-based partners, 2 elementary schools and consultants specializing in language justice and social marketing. Harvest Share is an equity-centered multi-level strategy to improve diet for immigrant communities in Sunset Park, Brooklyn and the program is designed for English, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and Bangla-speakers. In this presentation Stella Yi - the PI of the NIH grant that funds this study and Liz Dowd - critical strategic and farm programming lead for Harvest Share will walk the audience through the formative research process to get to this point including the program foundation driven by participatory systems science, provide a program overview and updates on progress.
Presenters:
- Liz Dowd (they/them)
- Partnerships Project Manager
Liz Dowd was born in Vermont and spent their youth tagging along their parents’ never-ending gardening projects. Liz picked-up some hard skills, but mostly how to trust your intuition and have fun doing it. Upon moving to New York City to study photography at the School of Visual Arts, they found that they loved the culture but missed the dirt. Their yearning for soil and seeds led them to the Pfeiffer Center, where they studied biodynamics, and NY Open Center, where they dove into urban permaculture. Then, after completing their Adult Urban Farm Training Program, Liz was offered a co-manager position at The Youth Farm, where they found themself energized and inspired by teaching and learning from their cohort, and the challenging discussions about food justice that regularly took place. It was this framework that inspired Liz to begin growing for their community at Brooklyn Grange in 2016. Since then, Liz has helped start Brooklyn Grange’s Equitable Food Distribution program; launching a sliding scale CSA and working with funders to sponsor culturally relevant produce distribution to Community Based Organizations.
- Stella Yi, PhD, MPH (she/her)
- Associate Professor
Stella Yi is an Associate Professor at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Department of Population Health. Dr. Yi is a researcher focused on health equity and social justice for Asian American and immigrant communities. Her specific content area expertise is on community-partnered and culturally appropriate initiatives focused on nutrition and eating, cardio-metabolic disease, the collection of disaggregated race/ethnicity data at the local and state levels and application of inclusive research practices. Dr. Yi received her Masters in Public Health in Chronic Disease Epidemiology/Social Behavioral Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health and her doctorate in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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