Nutrition educators often lead the conversation around food access and equity. It is hard work to move policy against the profitable powers of the food industry. Dr. Pam Koch, and other colleagues in New York City, are openly challenging the impact of decades of decisions about food in the marketplace that have led to inequities not just in access, and poor health outcomes, but food inequities that have helped fuel systemic racial disparities broadly. Pam Koch wants to disrupt the status quo.
Read more at: “A Call for Nutrition Educators to Embrace Controversy,” Teachers College Newsroom, July 30, 2020.
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