Empowering Students to Transform the Food System
Real Food Director and founder to speak on campus!
Friday, October 4, 2013 · 12 - 1:30 PM
On Campus
Empowering Students to Transform the Food System Who: Anim Steel, Executive Director, Real Food Generation What: Learn about how to have an impact on food, while enjoying some local produce Where: AOK Library Gallery, UMBC Anim Steel is the co-founder of Real Food Generation and its current campaign, “Real Food Challenge.” He is also the former Director of National Programs at The Food Project in Boston. Anim holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. in Astrophysics and History from Williams College. “Real Food Challenge” leverages the power of youth and universities to create a healthy, fair and green food system. Its primary campaign is to shift $1 billion of existing university food budgets towards local/community-based, fair, ecologically sound and humane food sources — what they call “real food”— by 2020.� Real Food Challenge also maintains a national network of student food activists—providing opportunities for networking, learning, and leadership development for thousands of emerging leaders. Sponsored by: The Interdisciplinary Studies Program, The Garden @UMBC, UMBC Food Coalition |