Space Curator, Facilitator and conjuror of spaces for freedom, Emanuel H. Brown (he/him), Executive Director and Steward of Acorn Center for Restoration and Freedom, life's work centers around the question of How can people get free? How can people feel free?
Read MoreChristina Goette, co-founder of Shape Up San Francisco Coalition, emphasizes the importance of centering the voices of communities who are disproportionately burdened by beverage industry's predatory marketing as well as ensuring tax revenues are reinvested directly back into these communities.
Read MoreSara Soka, fellow at the Beeck Center and the campaign manager for Measure D, discusses the process of passing Measure D and the importance of community in moving SSB work forward.
Read MoreRod Lew, Executive Director of Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership (APPEAL), makes the case for systems change and calls for equity based policy processes in SSB taxes.
Read MoreDenisa Livingston from Dine Community Advocacy Alliance and the Slow Food International Council discusses how the fight to reduce sugary drink and other unhealthy food consumption is a matter of reclaiming indigenous lifeways and foodways.
Read MoreXavier Morales, Executive Director of the Praxis Project, makes the case for a transformative systems approach to health inequities caused by sugar sweetened beverages.
Read MoreThis podcast episode in Communities Building Power for Health (CBPH) Series features Tere Almaguer of PODER, an organization based in the San Francisco's Mission District.
Read MoreThis podcast episode in Communities Building Power for Health (CBPH) Series features, we speak with Guy Reiter (Anahqwet) on the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin about his organization Menikanaehkem and their work in rebuilding their community by fostering language and cultural revitalization.
Read MoreThis podcast episode in Communities Building Power for Health (CBPH) Series interviews Genoveva Islas, the director of Cultiva La Salud, an organization working for health and social justice in Fresno, CA. Fresno is a food desert and obesity and diabetes are a major issue disproportionately affecting the health of the community.
Read MoreThis podcast episode in Communities Building Power for Health (CBPH) Series interviews Janet Robinson Flint, the Executive Director of Black Women for Wellness, an organization focusing on improving health and social justice conditions for black women.
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