TUESDAY TALKS
A Community Speaker Series Featuring Some of Our Neighborhood’s Most Fascinating People
Most Months at the Cleveland Park Library
Our Next Talk:
Tuesday, May 19
START TIME: 6:45PM
TUESDAY, MAY 19
6:45 Talk begins
Corby Kummer
Executive Director, Food & Society, at the Aspen Institute
Is Food Medicine?
Learn about the Food is Medicine movement and how it can improve the health of people and communities in DC and beyond.
Free and in person. Start time: 6:45 PM
Space limited - remember to register
Is Food Medicine?
Join Corby Kummer, executive director of Food & Society at the Aspen Institute, to hear about the Food is Medicine movement and how it can improve the health of people and communities within DC and beyond. He’ll present the new Food is Medicine Community Action Plan, which centers the essential role of community organizations like DC Greens that are trusted anchors in Food is Medicine work. He will also highlight local Aspen Food Leaders Fellows working here in DC to create a fair, sustainable, and healthy food system.
Corby Kummer
CORBY KUMMER is executive director of Food & Society at the Aspen Institute, a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science, and a senior editor of The Atlantic, for which he was a longtime food columnist and originated a vertical on food, sustainability, policy, and food justice. He attended the Loomis-Chafee School and received a BA from Yale College.
He is the author of The Joy of Coffee and The Pleasures of Slow Food, the first book in English on the Slow Food movement, and has been restaurant critic of New York, Boston, and Atlanta magazines and a food and food policy columnist for The New Republic. He has received six James Beard Journalism Awards. One of the country’s most widely quoted experts on food justice and food culture in the United States, Corby is a featured commentator on food and food policy every week on WGBH’s Boston Public Radio.