On-going
Food Systems & Mutual Aid
Food Security
- Role
- Organizer & food worker
- Timeline
- Ongoing
Food security is a systems word for a human fact: people need to eat, and the market is not a plan. I've worked this from more than one angle — kitchens, farms, markets, distribution — and I still think the interesting design problem is dignity plus logistics.
The work looks like surplus that would have been trash, a van, a list of households, a church basement, a spreadsheet that isn't precious. It also looks like listening: what do people actually want to cook, who can't wait in a line, where is the shame hiding in the process.
In Baltimore, New York City, and Los Angeles, I've built bridges and spun networks between people who have food they want to distribute, people who want to distribute it, and people who need to eat.
Impact & outcomes
- Moved food through informal and formal channels without treating people as intake numbers.
- Practiced the unsexy skills: packing, routing, cold chain, and not wasting what you fought to get.
- Held the principle that access to food is important social infrastructure, not a favor.