2017 Just Food? Conference
Videos from the event are available on the conference website here!
This year’s Just Food? Conference will focus on labor in the food system, exploring the issues most relevant to those who grow, harvest, prepare, and serve our food. Participants will learn from a diverse group of food system workers, advocates, scholars, practitioners and other authorities, who will speak about their work on topics including agricultural worker rights, worker compensation in the restaurant industry, regulatory responses, and alternative ownership and operating models. Through the conference, we hope to shift attention toward a critical, but often overlooked, component of our food system: the workers. By amplifying the voices of those most embedded in our food system, we hope to educate participants, empower them to make positive change, and ultimately, work together to create a more just food system.
Conference Features
Schedule
8:00–9:00am: Registration and light breakfast
All Day: Poster Session
9:00–9:20am: Welcome Address from Emily Broad Leib, Director of the Food Law and Policy Clinic of Harvard Law School
9:20–10:10am: Keynote: Sheila Maddali, Tipped Over The Edge: Restaurant Workers’ & the Fight for Justice
10:25–11:35am: Breakout Session #1: Panels
11:45–12:25pm: Breakout Session #2: Talks
12:35–1:40pm: Lunch and Films
1:50–3:00pm: Breakout Session #3: Panels
3:00–3:30pm: Poster Session & Coffee Break
3:40 – 4:00pm: Remarks from Dean Martha Minow, Harvard Law School
4:00–4:50pm: Keynote: Steve Hitov and Fabiola Mieres, More Than Just Food: The Case of the Fair Food Program
5:00pm: Goodbye from the Conference Organizers
Videos from the event are available on the conference website here!
A collaboration of the Harvard Food Literacy Project and Harvard Law School Food Law Society. Co-sponsored by the Food Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School.