Nurturing the Local Food Community: Supporting Farmers and Increasing Equitable Access 10/21/24 | 5:30 PM | Northen Auditorium

Join Campus Kitchen and the Environmental Studies Program as we kick off the Fall Term Just Food series with a presentation by Maureen McNamara Best of the Local Environmental Agricultural Project. This event will take place in Northen Auditorium on Monday 10/21 at 5:30 PM.

Thank you to the Environmental Studies Program for their support of this event!

About Maureen McNamara Best:

Maureen loves food -- thinking about food, growing food, eating food, cooking food, and, of course, buying local food at LEAP's famers markets. Maureen has been working with food, agriculture, and community since the early 2000s. Her work and professional experience is wide-ranging and includes teaching high school agriculture in Raleigh, NC, working with migrant farmworkers in eastern North Carolina and in the Colorado plains, doing food safety inspections in Boulder, CO, and studying the economic viability of the local food system in Northern Colorado. Maureen has an MA in Anthropology from Colorado State University and undergraduate degrees in Agriculture Education, Spanish, and Anthropology from North Carolina State University. Maureen is a Bloomberg Fellow at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health where she studies the intersection of food systems, community, and health. Maureen, her spouse, two young kids, and pup all love Roanoke and are happy to call Southwestern Virginia home.