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REAL FOOD SUMMIT: Students Mobilizing for Just and Sustainable Food in
the Northeast

 

Over 150 students joined us at Yale from November 3-4, 2007 for the first Real Food Summit, where students from across the Northeast came together to galvanize a national movement around food on college campuses.   

 

Read the Summit Program or the Real Food Declaration.


Across the country, students at hundreds of colleges and universities are turning their attention to food systems in efforts to address campus sustainability and social responsibility.  From college farms to farm workers’ rights, from local and organic to fair trade, students are mobilizing around food: food that reflects their ethics, and that tastes good.  As the connections between food, sustainability, and social justice become more visible, and the momentum behind this student movement grows, it is important, now more than ever, that students are able to connect with each other and with the resources they need to be effective advocates for change.  The summit was an unprecedented opportunity for students across the Northeast to come together to network and create successful strategies for changing the way we eat on college campuses.

 

The Summit kicked off the Real Food Challenge in the Northeast, a collaborative network that will forge a common vision and bond between students working on many different issues all across the region, all having to do with “real food”—food that truly nourishes people, communities, and the land.

 

The Real Food Summit was organized as a joint effort of students and staff at The Food Project in Boston, the Brown Sustainable Food Initiative, and the Yale Sustainable Food Project, in conjunction with a planning committee comprised of student leaders at various schools.  While the conference was be primarily geared towards students, staff and faculty played an important role as presenters and participants.

 


Executive Committee

Marissa Grossman, The Food Project

Laura Hess, Yale Sustainable Food Project

David Schwartz, Brown Sustainable Food Initiative

 

Planning Committee

Katy Anderson, Princeton University

Siv Lie, Boston University

Sarah Lydia Lince, Mount Holyoke College

Sam Lipschultz, Sarah Lawrence College

Annie Myers, New York University



Schools in Attendance

Barnard College

Bennington College

Boston College

Boston University

Bowdoin College

Brandeis University

Brooklyn College

Brown University

Castleton State College

Columbia University

Conneticut College

Cornell Universtity

Culinary Institute of America

CUNY, Brooklyn College

Eugene Lang Collge, The New School

Green Mountain College

Hamilton College

Hampshire College

Harvard University

Haverford College

Hudson River Health Care

Johnson and Wales University

Manhattan College

McGill University

Middlebury College

Mount Holyoke College

New York University

Princeton University

Providence College

Rhode Island School of Design

Sarah Lawrence College

Smith College

St. Lawrence University

Stony Brook University

Swarthmore College

Syracuse University

The Food Project

UMass, Dartmouth

Union College

University at Buffalo

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of New Hampshire

University of Pennsylvania

Vassar College

Wellesley College

Wesleyan University

Yale University


 

Questions?

Contact Marissa Grossman at The Food Project, mgrossman@thefoodproject.org.

 

Real Food Summit