00:00Food access and food justice has always been a passion of mine. This is called Philly Forest
00:06and I developed this in response to COVID, targeting low-income people of color in the
00:11neighborhood, developing a free CSA harvest box program where they get a free box delivered on
00:17their step of produce every Saturday morning. This work is important to me because of all of the
00:23diet-related illnesses that are prevalent in low-income communities here in Philadelphia,
00:28so I want to change the narrative of the fact that people are entitled to healthy food and to have
00:34that come to them in such an easy way I think will help change their minds about their access and right
00:42to healthy food. The food system that I have been exposed to is very frustrating. It has a lot of
00:49institutional racism therein and a lot of the communities that I'm targeting with this work
00:54have ubiquitous corner store food lots like high salt foods and high sugar foods lots of fast food
01:01restaurants and really that's the main facet of the food system that I'm trying to combat.
01:06I'm going to vote because I think that it's really important to have a person in power who cares about
01:11the food system who cares about land access for young people and food sovereignty putting land back in
01:19the hands of the people.
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