The Georgetown University Urban Health Collaborative invites you to a lecture:
Advancing Food Justice in the Nation’s Capital
Speaker: Lauren Shweder Biel
Executive Director and Co-Founder
DC Greens
Drawing on her work with DC Greens over the past decade, Ms. Biel will share examples of cross-sectoral programs and policies in the District of Columbia that are designed to address individual and community health through food education and food access.
Lauren Shweder Biel is Executive Director and co-founder of DC Greens, a local non-profit that uses the levers of food education, food access, and food policy to advance food justice in the nation's capital. She is the co-chair of DC Health's "Diabesity" Committee, is an advisor to the Food Policy Council's "Food Access" working group, and has served on the Mayor's Commission for Healthy Youth and Schools. Lauren was named a Toyota Mother of Invention at Tina Brown's 2014 Women in the World Summit.
Prior to founding DC Greens, Lauren worked at Sesame Workshop in the International Education, Research and Outreach Department, overseeing educational content for the Northern Ireland and Brazilian versions of Sesame Street. Lauren holds a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.Phil. in Anthropology from NYU.
About the Urban Health Collaborative (UHC)
Launched in 2017, the UHC aims to champion urban health research & development in cities around the world and the Washington, DC area. The Collaborative is housed in the Department of International Health (School of Nursing & Health Studies). Contact: urbanhealth@georgetown.edu
