UPDATE: The Feb. 20 CALS EDC Lunch and Learn has been canceled — the CALS EDC hopes to reschedule with the date TBD.

The CALS Equity and Diversity Committee’s Lunch and Learn subcommittee invites you to attend the next Lunch and Learn session on Feb. 20!

Join Venice R. Williams as she takes us through a journey of exploring the history of food and foodways, and its burdened history… and possibilities for liberation. Sharing her personal and historical relationships to her ancestral African, African American, and Choctaw farming and foodways, Williams will invite us to take a look at “the tables we set” and the food we consume through an equity and food justice lens.

Event information:

The Table We Set, The Food We Eat
Feb. 20, 2023
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
Virtual via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92749754767

About Venice R. Williams:

Williams identifies as a cultural and spiritual midwife, strongly believing she was placed into creation to help bring forth all that is good and whole in people, guiding them through the exploration of their life path.  She is the executive director of Alice’s Garden Urban Farm and interim executive director of the Fondy Food Center, both in Milwaukee. Williams is also a community herbalist, cultivating fifty to sixty herbal species each year, using them to craft teas, salves, scents and more, as part of her holistic, spiritual, community practice. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, since 1989, she has been living and serving in Milwaukee as a layminister through the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Greater Milwaukee Synod. She is also minister for The Table, a first-century-style community in the twenty-first century, and curator of the Kujichagulia Producers Cooperative.

To find the list of spring 2023 EDC Lunch and Learn sessions and to access information and materials from previous EDC Lunch and Learn sessions, visit: http://equitydiversity.cals.wisc.edu/lunch-and-learn/.