Join us for an interactive conversation on the future of food.This event will explore how we can build resilient, equitable, and climate-conscious food systems that nourish both people and the planet. Our keynote speaker, Peggy O’Neal, will discuss food security, resilient food systems, climate change, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Our panel may discuss topics such as:

• Food justice and equity in access and distribution
• Policy approaches to sustainable and inclusive food systems
• Regenerative agriculture and ecosystem-based growing
• Perennial and homegrown food systems
• The role of community action

More about our keynote speaker:Peggy O’Neal brings an Arts and Humanities worldview to food leadership, law/policy, entrepreneurship, everyday life, and human flourishing through the lenses of poetics, aesthetics, and humanistic education. Her teaching promotes communities of practice, reflective practice, and experiential learning toward student self-actualization. Her and her students’ research presents creative works, literary/art criticism, analytic philosophy, and text/arts-based qualitative inquiry on various student-selected topics such as home gardening, food cooperatives, children’s books and food literacy, and the significance of art in daily living. Peggy aspires to contribute to the collective potentials of humanity and to happiness for all life on Earth.