Food sovereignty: Thriving in Wisconsin—lessons from ongoing initiatives led by two of Wisconsin’s 12 Native Nations was held November 16 at the 2022 Force for Positive Change Conference: Building resilient individuals, organizations and communities through social enterprise.
There are numerous initiatives underway across Wisconsin that promote food sovereignty, including through promoting food-based entrepreneurship. This panel brings Native voices to the conversation.
The panel will elaborate on how food sovereignty promotes and nurtures cultural traditional practices, how it reconnects with and builds stronger relationship with plant families, and how these foods feed and sustain communities in a healthy way. Through sharing stories, we will have a conversation – what makes these programs possible, how they work, how they are faring and what might individuals, organizations and communities across the state be able to learn and implement from understanding these programs.
Moderator: Maria Moreno, Earth Partnership
Panelists:
- Guy Reiter, Executive Director, Menikanaehkem Inc.
- Loretta Livingston, Program Coordinator, Food Sovereignty Program at Bad River
- Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings, Doctoral Fellow, UW-Madison HEAL-Earth Partnership