🎧 At the Table: The Chef's Guide to Advocacy with Katherine Miller
In this episode, we examine how the U.S. Farm bill affects the food and health of everyday Americans and explore how advocacy can shape our food systems.
The U.S. Farm Bill has far-reaching implications for our food systems and our health. Our guest this week, Katherine Miller, shares insights into this piece of legislation and offers tips on how to effectively advocate for food policies. Katherine has built a 20-year career working at the intersections of policy, politics, and social impact. Her new book, "At the Table: The Chef's Guide to Advocacy," highlights ways that people can get involved in food policy and advocacy. It showcases chefs that work on hunger relief efforts, food waste reduction policies, labor, and mental health policies and more. We address questions like:
In this discussion, we address questions such as:
What is the role of chefs and culinary professionals in helping change the food system?
What are some ways people can get started on political advocacy?
What are common mistakes people make when it comes to food advocacy?
You can learn more about Katherine’s work at her website www.table81.com and follow her [at]Table81 on Twitter, Instagram, and Threads.
About Katherine
Katherine has built a 20-year career working at the intersections of policy, politics, and social impact. She develops and manages award-winning campaigns, trains activists around the world, and helps deliver millions of supporters – and hundreds of millions in funding – to efforts focused on global health, climate change, gender bias and violence, and food system reform.
Her new book, “At the Table: The Chef's Guide to Advocacy," highlights ways that people can get involved in food policy and advocacy. It showcases chefs that work on hunger relief efforts, food waste reduction policies, labor and mental health policies and more. The work is informed by her decade working with non profits like the James Beard Foundation.
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