Join us for the kickoff our The Future of Food Conversation Series!
The Future of Food: Futurist Mindsets and the Pursuit of a Just & Regenerative Food Future
Inevitably, the future is an uncertain place. We can’t predict exactly what the future will look like, nor can we prepare ourselves perfectly for it. This is true of everything and especially for our future experiences with food. As Forum for the Future notes, “we can shape the future, and the best way to start is by imagining the future we want to see.”
In this kick-off event of the Future of Food Conversation Series, we will hear from people working within and beyond Nashville’s food system about how they adopt and employ a futurist mindset in their pursuits of social, economic and/or environmental change and why this is important for the creation of a just and regenerative food future for our city.
The moderated panel discussion will be followed by open Q&A and an opportunity for community conversation and networking.
This event is free and open to the public.
About our panelists:
Kia Jarmon
Kia Jarmon works at the intersections of community, culture, crisis, and communication, guiding leaders, organizations, and systems on a pathway of improvement. Over the past 16 years, central to Jarmon’s work is studying and sharing how people are impacted by leadership decisions. In her everyday role Jarmon wears many hats: she leads boutique communications and community engagement consultancy, MEPR Agency; she is also founder and visionary for the Nonprofit Equity Collaborative; and she serves as philanthropy advisor of Give Black, Give Back the first effort from the Black Philanthropy Initiative in Middle Tennessee.
You can learn more about her here.
Photo and bio excerpt courtesy of kiajarmon.com
Amanda Little
Amanda Little is a professor of journalism and science writing at Vanderbilt University and a columnist for Bloomberg, where she writes about the environment, agriculture and innovation. Amanda has a particular fondness for far-flung and hard-to-stomach reporting that takes her to ultradeep oil rigs, down manholes, into sewage plants, and inside monsoon clouds.
She is the author of The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World, which explores how to feed humanity sustainably and equitably in the climate change era.
You can learn more about her here.
Photo and bio excerpt courtesy of amandalittle.com
Samantha Veide
Samantha is the Managing Director for Americas and Transformation at Forum For The Future, the organization providing convening support for the FeedBack Nashville initiative.
The current questions that guide her work are: How might we build organizations that embody and mirror the just and regenerative future we want to see? What does it mean to adopt decision-making, governance, and ways of working that model just and regenerative principles? And, how do you build future-fit organizational strategies that have structure and “teeth” and yet are adaptable enough to work in these times of increasing discontinuity?
You can learn more about her here.
Photo and bio excerpt courtesy of forumforthefuture.org
Maris Masellis (panel moderator)
Maris Masellis, originally a North East native, has been calling Nashville home for the last 11 years. Originally moving to Tennessee to pursue her love for music, she has worked in various service industries that have all concluded that she LOVES people and the environment. She now works full-time for the Tennessee Environmental Council, teaches kickboxing at HOTBOX Fitness, hosts a sustainability podcast called the Critical Root Zone, and DJs ecstatic dances in her "down-time". Maris believes that loving yourself to love others is critical to making a deeper impact on this planet. She is so excited to be hosting the premier event for this series! See you all on May 2nd!
Join us May 2!
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