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Ology and she has an interest in the ethical concerns surrounding biotechnology and how to improve quality in the rapidly changing field of healthcare alternately she'd like to apply these interest in a clinical work health care systems engineering position helping to transform the way we think about health care delivery and applying your technology and responsible accessible way.

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So come on it's going to be like kind of like a game child Bradbury you have to take your credit. Card and I say card because you're a card so card. As a 4th generation Georgia grower community garden educator and urban agriculture advocates and the local food security sovereignty activists he spent 2 decades in the Atlantic 3 industry and played a pivotal role in creating a more resilient food system in Atlanta.

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For design and appreciation and reverence for the beauty of nature and training in conservation ecology horticulture. Brings abundant offerings of experienced exuberance and insight into his work he is the urban conservation training institute site operations manager through greening Youth Foundation and we have another guest from Green foundation Ebony.

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Thanks for coming out and increase their green new foundation is something we may hear a little bit more about via car use experience as he works in tandem with the Urban Youth Corps program director to execute highly impactful hands on immersive learning opportunities for the center of treaties and volunteers.

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Come on our own continental I'm. Into law is the executive director of the Georgia farmers markets Messiaen. The dirt farmer who says he has a statewide organization led by farmers farmers market managers and other local food and G.E. after a 6 to support communities and growing local food and.

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Access. This is like 7 pages of BIOS. Is a graduate of. Science and education. In addition to her work with George farmer says the as she sees. Her for the Center for civic innovations food innovation fellowship program and test University's organic farming project she was also recently elected to serve as a board member for the National Farmers' Market coalition and its.

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Impact area advisor to the Community Foundation in Atlanta and he said. And finally Dr Charles Moore. Science from Union College and completed his medical degree at Harvard Medical School. Dr Morris is researching specialty are extremely hard to say. This morning as he subsequently completed residency training in. Ok head and neck surgery and a fellowship training in cranio facial.

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Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Michigan I was not kidding you guys Dr Morris a professor at University. Of. Surrey. His research focus has been in the investigation of factors in health care disparity with a particular focus on head and neck cancer incidence in medically underserved communities he's the president and founder of education assessment and leadership.

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This organization began in 2004 as a traveling educational resource out of your personal vehicle through this as you organization to educate the community on health issues assess its needs and in the process build leaders within the community to address those issues. The center is free and affordable medical facility with 4 locations which provide adult medical care pediatric medical care specialty medical care it's all services as well as mental health services for the uninsured and disadvantaged the center is the healing community center.

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So all these 3 fellows have much longer buyers than I just grabbed and because they're so distinguished and fascinating and there will be out there and then. Pass the baton to Skyler and that and thank you that's a much for joining us we're so grateful. Very nice meeting you all I thought I'd kind of open up with you guys just kind of given the opportunity to talk a little bit more about what you're currently working on and kind of what is exciting you right now and what you're doing.

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I guess I'll start. With you my name is carby up on THE LEAD and they live and are currently in the state upwards as manager at the Urban conservation training institute for the grooming Ruth foundation so. Much of my day to day work is with the urban youth corps which is a training program for young folks 18 to 20.

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Ish. Not in school now working on kind of searching and we help them along that path. Training them in you know sustainable all. Technology and then placing them in positions in the community stream. With with the intention so. How do them pursue careers in the workforce and we work with.

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Organization my specialty is urban agriculture I've been working in the community garden community Greenfield for a few years now. And so like my data they consist of taking care of the herd of goats that we have. Prepping our beds for spring planting and then we have crews that come on training them and of course the horticulture so.

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It's and I'm excited about our cool and upcoming What we have that will be starting next week so we're bringing 5 young people on and we're going to try to get them in getting them out in the field so. Many names Can I Just to follow up with you before I go into the rest of you and I also want to talk a little bit about lay kind of your greatest recent accomplishments are areas where you see a lot of opportunity and I imagine working with young people we had to get to see them grow in progress through the training that they received do you see that the work that you're doing there is like you see a lot of accomplishment within.

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Areas that people can grow or do you see that there's still some issues with trying to maintain the people that you're training on are there any I guess issues with the community health problems that you're working on or do you see that you're actually like there's a lot of home growth in the people that you're working with yes she was amount of growth sell the neighborhood that are Institute is housed in his West then which is the southwest Atlanta.

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You know traditional working class African-American community. Well that's a great things and also lots of issues as well. And. So we're just going to your original question my greatest accomplishment lately is making so real headway have progress on rebuilding the chicken coop that we have on one side so you know if they're really proud of that put a couple post there yesterday so some would be able to have more seconds on site and the reason why we have to consider is why it's.

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People that animal husbandry is possible within the city also they produce eggs so we're supplementing in our communities nutrition in-house so that's that's that's really awesome but but to get some sort of broader question that you have what we do is we connecting young people particularly people of color African-American folks with the lads with agriculture all with tradition and official food ways so to be able to see folks who you know come from.

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You know kind of distress neighborhoods reconnect with the earth with the environment and find their place in the natural world you know I think we're all kind of feeling a sense of disconnection especially living with a manmade environment particularly so in the inner city so seeing young people who traditionally are.

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You know soul separated and disconnected from. Earth from nature from the planet or reconnect and really find a passion for doing things like placing flowers or harvesting elephants invest was amazing to me I'm so and I get to see that one on a regular basis and half a minute here so this is this is something that drives me nuts thank you so much you know.

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What any of the other panelists like to comment on the 1st question about what they're doing can you just give a recap on their current projects and what's making them say to. Your Do you want me to like introduce myself as well if you'd like. So in addition to the bio that.

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Read I'm also a board member is working coalition service in the alleys reading for be sustainable agriculture research education group and I'm also a graduate of so fire farms black in Phoenix by Marina. Program and what's really interesting about those 3 things and what's happening with Georgia Farmer's Market Association right now is that my 2015 experience as a fire fire really gave me a context for the opportunities that the association has to to impact the way food is distributed in Georgia.

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Like she said we are statewide organization but one of the challenges that we we realized when we started the organization was that dude was not local food was not exactly equal equitably in our state and certainly not. On behalf of the rollers that grow our food and the communities that need the food there's a tremendous disconnect there's a disconnect between world stands and Herb and and.

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Lots of challenges there so. My work nationally and seeing how other communities are addressing these issues as well as meeting together with leaders in the justice movement and so fire and stay connected to that work has really am guided me to a place where George farmer's markets is usually is is really focused on addressing those and equities in our state and on behalf of farmers and on behalf of communities I am I was born in Augusta at work were military base my father is a he did 3 tours in Vietnam and decorated Purple Heart soldier and we moved when I was very little to Savannah and my wife was mentioned I graduated from University of Georgia and never lived in Atlanta for the last 20 years so I consider myself to be a quintessential Southern girl Georgia girl and I'm very passionate about the state and I'm also passionate about the history.

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Of our experiences on the land and. Clearly the experiences. Of black. Citizens of the state and you know enslaved Africans so. Right now we are focused on a very exciting project actually with Georgia attacked and we are hosting 2 farmer's market. Projects on campus the summer just going to be really exciting it's called just food and that we have an opportunity to offer food on a sliding scale to the community it's the idea behind this particular approach is that food should be equally available regardless of payment amount or method of payment so although there will be a sliding scale in we will also we'll accept cash check and snap all kinds of payments the food that everyone receives will be the best and most nutrient dense food available and everyone will see the same the same food and we will be sourcing the food from local growers and some of it will come in partnership with.

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With state research opportunities in state farms and gardens when it had a out and down and then the rest of it will be sourced by directly by local growers that may or may not have had an opportunity to participate in wholesale selling we're going to be able to operate them.

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Really fair wholesale pricing for their be and then also be able to pass on the. Kind of the balance to families who might not have access to health how is it healthy sustainably grown so super excited about that bird and like is it going to have to markets at Georgia Tech in gauging the low income.

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Families around Georgia Tech as well as students secure students on Georgia Tech's campus which is very interesting to learn that there are food insecure students on campus and then also we are going to be supporting on the steps of the university that may be experiencing. I've been in equities as well.

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Thank you very much. Higher one. So get to Charles Moore and then stated really critical if you're going to not. Worry and he knows that his mistress is not coming I'm not going to so I'm your nose and. Gets there it is a lot of work just from my experiences working it really helps us.

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Seeing folks coming in only when there are these processes got such late stages that they have very. Unusually identified where money is coming from and they're coming from the west side of the land. Meet with companies that goes in is got my car and started driving to their has a seat with his shoes were.

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They really know what to do but all they need to do something and I'm from that is Ridley group from you know this is just doing talks doing some dreams of being my car and then when I saw all the medical issues the word. That. If. I'm a little bit more of the softspoken so I'll try to get better OK.

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When that when I saw all the medical issues there were being addressed Relenza primary here in 3rd in the liver in primary here and just doing that there just really from that I focused on that traditional locations. Under bridges right houses places where folks would not necessarily come.

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Good medical care but I don't with the right around these areas there are really concentrated here is the poverty. That people you know often just hold them up and I thought as a group. As well of the individual we can make a difference so. The work they do and the giving community center of the Health Care center of the protocol fight health care centers now main site in the to the health care centers in schools so elementary schools so that he has to be seen there they can have more see time their families can also see makes it more convenient so people are.

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Missing work. I also direct the urban health initiative that ever been there from my perspective the goal of it is that I didn't you know with community bring some of those resources out to the community and then together. There is a bi directional learning experience so that students that will see staff learn from the community.

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What the issues are and the hopefully they can and contribute something to try and address those issues in. I'm also working with Dr Who said it's an oral health project with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation looking to increase access points as well health is something that a lot of people don't have good quality access to here.

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They also were looking at training other providers nontraditional providers of nurses. Medicals and others to know the board do some certain things that will help to give folks the quality care that they need and use technology that are 2 percent of this has your head to bridge those gaps and help the provider as well as help the individual.

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Something or other programs that we work. In the urban health initiative where we have a dual program so we train students we train community members to be dualistic provided support of source. Pregnant moms. So that they didn't get the support of care they need focusing on Bill resource community because often they will have this resource we have a teaching there are nothing like the 2 of these here but.

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Article with that is we do produce a small amount of festivals fruits but it's really more a way to. Help with life skills building or individuals the number of people that we have that come to our program have never had a driver's license so we help them get a driver's license and never had a thank you count your or no one in the family has we helped them you know bed sheets and some things about budgeting help people start their own businesses and business plan.

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We do things like a walk with that program where every Saturday at the end of each or campaign trail on Martin Luther King. Of the above I've had minute talk meet with community members so that they can see a medical provider in a non threatening way in a white coat and they have whatever questions they want to contribute what they they know and also how to create a sense of community and then we go on anywhere from 15 mile walk depending on what community wants so it's focusing on health and nutrition in creating a sense of community in actually the number of Georgia Tech students have become actively involved with their research.

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We also are all in a program working with the grocery store we're really in what would be considered a food desert or in both is a food insecurity so we've got. And trains store workers so that they will know more about they will know more about nutrition so they can be advocates for the people that come into the store they can help them shop in the.

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Better Man or. Be able to buy. Enough food for their family that. He will be a rich his rights and then all of that with various resources that need like that you know that are so that you don't have insurance and you don't you know it means they can still see what.

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We do programs those are just. So you seem to talk a lot about I was going to ask a question about their resources access an agency that you kind of trying to help because we talk about how foundation of Community Health really rests upon these 3 ideas of the resources you have the access you have to them and the agency your self empowerment that you feel to go and get that and I really appreciated how your answer incorporated all 3 of those things.

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For the 2 panelist who are more focused on community community health in relation to food in. Food security and justice I kind of want your opinions on how these 3 kind of concepts are related to your work and also how you see them also related to the justice or injustice in equity in equity that you see in the work that you do.

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Man will lose my mind I just want to say that this is you know an all some new thing for him I had a chance to meet him personally before he passed 20032011 this organization called the Lead a local food initiative and I knew him would come to those meetings and so really passionate individual and it's great to see his work still continuing in his legacy is continuing to this day.

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We're speaking of some of the things you talk about which you all were born with this was resonating so much with me especially about helping the folks who participate in your programs with other skills and other needs they have lost but you know besides just the most direct health challenges that you know folks who called While program.

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You know need help with establishing the bank account so it's you know kind of a ground up building that we're doing for folks home you know and giving them the skills and you know the access to the resources they didn't need to actually build a life. A lot of folks that we deal with are you know have been working and living on the fringes of society so to actually bring them in and OEM give them access to sort of direct connections with legitimacy is is a huge part of what we do.

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So yeah I'm of the answer your question yes. Yes thank you. And we have. One of the the flash back and say there are just a few markets on the idea really came from you different models that I have experienced across the country. Primarily the fresh stock market model in Kentucky but there's also programming in Washington D.C. that similarly on focuses on.

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Strengthening community by focus on mobile and. And one of the things that it has is important in our model and in both of those models is the engagement of the community beyond the actual market experience so on in addition to you know providing a way for farmers to.

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To to be engaged in this wholesale. Kind of operation that we have we also provide them access to the courses and trainings to support their business development. We are working work I reckon with the Athens land trust we also are working with the start the program I can really university they're they're focusing on a former business kind of incubator and so that's very exciting and we're also working directly with certified nationally grown the challenges there farmers have oftentimes kind of defining themselves as organic going after that certification many of our growers don't want to have that certification and quite frankly I mean I think that we have heard that far above what the organic label requires.

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And and so really kind of working to. Provide those growers with a a certification that's much more accessible and also provides the community a way of understanding how that farmer is growing food intentionally is something that we you know we've focused on it in terms of communication between the growers and the community and then the other thing is that I mean probably the most important thing is that the markets themselves do not exist unless the community requests and so we don't go into spaces and try to create a farmer's market we really look for that initial you know spark that we support existing leadership and and try to let them guide us as to how we can.

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Facilitate the values that they have in terms of local food in their community and beyond the market season we engage them in ways and drop the season as well but we gauged. In topics and surround the Justice and the access policy other ways you can get engaged leadership development and things like that leaders in our shareholders in the market are able to weigh in on what is grown on behalf of their communities so during the off season we're meeting and we're talking about what grows in Georgia and what the priorities are for the families in their community and communicating that we have defied a farmer liaison from within the community that been has that conversation with the growers to make sure that we are growing intentionally and based on the expressed needs of the of the community and so it's a very individualized approach.

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I have a follow up question for you. Kind of listening to you talk I'm driving a little bit perilous from where I grew up in New Jersey I grew up in very small farm town actually and it was very neat growing up users very unlike all the rest of the town surrounding me in New Jersey and in the valley I lived on the mountain in the valley there is just strips in strips of little tiny independently owned farms and the family still lived in the area everybody knew like the Donaldson's in the families who owned the farms and we had a variety of different types of farms we had farms mail for produce we had a farm for like sheep.

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And milks and stuff and you saw a lot of community support surrounding these farms because that was very much the identity of my town and a lot of people were went even to the grocery store whether or not they went to the farm or to the grocery store there was a sign saying like this was locally sourced from so and so's town and it was very nice to see because you kind of had this community surrounding like we're eating our own suit and went with that actually did come cheaper prices for us.

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And I feel like there's sometimes a disconnect people seem to think that because it's grown here maybe it's more expensive or whatever but I personally saw the opposite but I would imagine in especially in Atlanta there's a little bit of a challenge in the sense that that's not necessarily the identity of the communities that you're trying to grow these farms in and in addition you also have to compete with these huge industrialized firms that I had never seen until I got down to the south and you see the huge farms so kind of drawing on that like how do you kind of combat those 2 issues yeah a lot of conversation and information sharing we have an entire kind of life division of the work that we do you around the cage and campaigns so around the summer we have a Justin 10 campaign where we are sharing kind of the economic value.

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Of spending money with in your community and how that's different than shopping at grocery stores we have a Hoosier farmer campaign where we define some of the growing practice is a stable practice that is in the to in order to help individuals be able to have a conversation with their farmers farmer's markets I should say that separate from just that I'm very excited about it but we also support the nearly 200 farmers markets across our states a lot of those markets that are in that are enjoy a joke that if you shop at farmer's markets they're probably a part of our association so we do a lot in terms of just general communications with all of our marketing campaigns on sex I don't want them there they are big big bucks that me my market me and I sent me there like you said excited about us being here for good while the rest of us and we have amazing markets and we have lots of farmers that are at those markets doing their growing great great.

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But. Yes So we we have we have those 2 campaigns and then you know we share a lot we have set days on social media where we focus on the individual members that are part of the association and we have like I said market managers and markets that are part of the association never farmers we have other organizations and we have individuals and so.

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We highlight that word so that we are establishing more of an understanding of what it means to be a part of a local food system the different roles that different organizations and individuals do play and hopefully others will see ways that they can participate in that you know and really placing value on where every you fit in so we are trying to establish more of that conversation around local booth and being connected so that people have a better understanding of the banking a lot of myths you know in terms of cost in terms of the you know at the access Unfortunately one of the challenges we have in the south is that there is a as there is a stigma surrounding snappily BT and and it's really unfortunate because there are significant opportunities incentives for families to shop at farmer's markets in particular and for farmers to be able to have increased income at markets and it's one of the ways that farmers small scale farmers.

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And are sustainable farmers can receive the types of incentives or you know that they don't get because they're not industrial farmers they're not receiving the subsidies for you know having large industrial farms so so yeah so I helped spread it around about yeah I know I think thank you very much there are going to be COULD have to resist a real challenge because even if our site is that you know we have a small form of course we're just before a large grocery store growth or change in people's habits and then there's an old.

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A farmer's market that you know exists every Saturday on the weekend on as well which aging folks who live in the surrounding neighborhoods have it is super difficult and you know we're still trying to figure out how to do them both they debt if we can show off a working model MY of you know producing food in the house my then you know hopefully don't go you know a little bit.

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Towards change in people's minds and attitude about you know where they shop and how they shop and where they get their food for so you know eventually our goal would be to have 4 or 4 garden everybody shard well but you know this is this a challenge so it doesn't help that.

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Large retailers have co-opted you know Tertius far from our history and why you know natural and will get even market you know I mean I it's it's very frustrating to me that people think that I work for the cameras bring it and or sprouts you know this is very very significant as you.

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Know along the line one of the things that we're we're doing now is very little. That we're safe and that I want but I don't know any of you know what really was used as of the ME not new ways and there was water as well as the great.

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Deal of it don't look good and. Are transitioning that she'd be teaching Hitchen it will also. Bring me with healthier I and a place where there are here that will work of all 4 patients they have to be able to get meals and we're starting a program where worse greening all patients that come and see who wins here so we know that but another goal is the head of the farmer's market within us a little in the cafeteria there are a number.

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People work here as well as the comers. Who benefit from. Other things and this whole kind of thing you know. Is. Training us those that think. It's what we're all so for my nose and clothes you know you're going to wear it. All right so next I'd kind of like to touch a little bit on the 6 key concepts of Community Health that you've got a paper I can just kind of read them briefly.

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One of the ideas is that all aspects of life contribute to health and wellbeing I think we talked a little bit about that with his father's growing food and being having that be a part of your community. The relationship between the communities and individuals as a symbiotic each community has he unique set of assets and inequities that should be approached Accordingly also talked a little bit about the.

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Community how it should be community led decisions by stakeholders involved trade offs and communities impact there and are impacted by events in policies at the regional national global levels I just kind of wanted your opinion a little bit on these 2 concepts if there's anything that you feel should be added to them maybe like if you were to have a 7th key concept that you frequently come about in your work.

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Or if there's one particular concept that you feel is more important than the others. Because this is I don't know this is just kind of how we've been defining community health but I am sure in everybody's work it's a little bit different. Well I mean I I think I think they're great I mean I think that those there are very strong and cover a lot of ground so having media you know we think it's very decisions are changes in what I would say is.

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That I love the assists on. Community led community driven and that's definitely something that I think we're all starting to realize you know has to be and this is our work and I mean you know this isn't a new concept I'm sure you guys know that but it's really great to see it coming out of the communities in really being accepted on life on academic you know kind of platform and so that that level I think.

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Validation is you know however you feel about it and when it comes to things like funding the work. And so that that's that's exciting. I'd like to see more direct connections being made to the impact on public health and community help because you know we are challenged in terms of getting consistent funding for things that are not there not clear help outcomes that can be directly linked you know to our worker and that's unfortunate I mean I do you know I would love to see us out to be able to create more data to support the work that we're doing to support how.

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Farmers markets and farmers are improving health outcomes and you know the impact. Of growing food in being connected to your soul and go on as it relates to healing. And I think still how. It's done you know my experience as so fire fire you know the whole idea was to help.

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People of color black and Latino is reconnect with the Lions and it was very powerful to have that space so fire also has an opportunity for allies you know to calm and get very attention all experiences on how to support the work marginalized people when it comes to.

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All of that system so there's a lot of really dynamic things happening arounds topics in terms of budget but he need to decide what needs to be focused on and how we need to address these things on both ends in our communities individual communities but also like on a larger scale.

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Another thing that I didn't mention is that I have this and so my introduction to this work was in an effort to You Tube to obtain the healthiest as nutrient dense food that I could and understanding that there was not access to that in the traditional kind of health pathways and particularly for me as a woman of color had a really high risk pregnancies and had a lot of challenges dealing with health care providers so you know having that connection and kind of reclaiming my My Space and my experience with that had a tremendous impact on my actual you know physical health so I think as important.

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As when anybody else like to add to that point. Is you know I agree with everything that has been said that the point that a wife just stressed that the community's no one. And it's just time to actually listen and learn to work with. The community and one.

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That you know really can. Get to where we all have to listen. And then share what you know. I'd kind of like to build on that point as far as communities knowing what they need in also home being able to mobilize and speak for themselves as a community and try to get things done and also kind of the role that the Internet has been playing in or in in at least the past 20 or so years particularly with the ability for its.

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Do you really really great thing I know for me at least I volunteer trees Atlanta and I get you know some Susan all the time and like it's very easy to now like keep track on what you're doing. And especially with the Internet you can dream groups do whatever but we've also seen in recent years the ability for the Internet to misinform people and create our own somewhat toxic groups online I know like Facebook has a very big anti-vaccination community and there's a lot of thanks weirdo science that has the ability to be presented on the Internet.

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And kind of I guess. Is there any suggestions that you guys can put forward as far as using technology as a tool and being able to kind of navigate around the misinformation that could possibly lead communities that are trying to do really good things but could potentially be led astray are things that they hear on line that aren't necessarily the case on the whole think they go wrong because the sins of of higher learning in folks who are experts.

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Have to get of my slicker with how they present the information you know folks is it's a span is you know. Close to nothing that this point you know I mean you've got to get focused on that real quick and you know in a more and hold the edge of the so I think we have to be a lot more creative with how we.

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Reach people and they preserve the information that I think is going to be most important to them for the hills so. Yeah I think that's that's that's crucial got to meet people where they at and. You know. Also realize that there we have a long way to go to kind of shift the paradigm that has been you know created by consumer society and home large businesses for a very long time so that I think the beast that we're up against and combating is is.

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Very worthy opponents opponents so we need to be very strategic why are we you know attacked the level of misinformation and ignorance that we that we deal with. In the larger society and especially in communities that our economic reach out. And to a point I think you know I have 2 younger sisters to especially big youngest one she gets all of her news from like Instagram and Facebook and but that's kind of how you we have to start presenting actual news and get like the the platforms and the scientists and people who know what they're talking about want to educate people on Community Health kind of there for the younger generation.

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I think they also need to play is the talk said folks don't have a problem being very assertive you know and strongly stating things even when they're just flat out wrong anything that those of us that are doing the work were hesitant to do that we want to like craft like a very you know polite response and I think we have to you know stop doing that like I think that we have to get more comfortable just like put it out there.

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Next 2 weeks we're hosting plates of shipping a lot of even a very uncomfortable with that letter that we are saying because that's exactly what we're doing that and we're mobilizing people across the city the plane's engine if you're going to her name. Is going to discuss it then we can work with it every day so you know and the people who may actually want to bring into the fold when I just interested in getting to the choir we have to use language that you know this or.

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If it had been just probably not but you know I think. And I think what. They're saying you know they're right but also hoping you will realize it. Is my mind that you that's just what it's for or. Information. Resources and the him in the Wall Street Journal or something like that but you know Chad says so right there and then and forms is important so what you want to know you want to hear.

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So I have a question that's just kind of a little bit of a fun question the World Health Organization has top 10 credits for it kind of looked into I was kind of interested given your your background on food food was not one of them. Do you feel like it should be one of the other ones I can read them to you if you don't know what the top 10 are our air pollution and climate change has worn on non-communicable diseases such as diabetes cancer heart disease a global influenza pandemic fragile and vulnerable settings which I guess food could fall under.

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Over one 5th of the people in the world live in places in protracted crisis with weak health care services. Weak primary health care into microbial resistance. Path as such as people in Z. and vaccine back vaccine hesitancy with a 30 percent increase in musicals for the 1st time in recent history and dang mosquito borne illness with approximately $390000000.00 actions per year imported percent of the world at risk.

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Kind of just in general what you feel with these top 10 health threats if there is one in particular that you're that you think I'm sorry I forgot to mention HIV is also on there especially in African countries. And your opinion kind of which one of these is the most important of those 10 and if you feel like for example food should be its own separate thing where that would fill in or if you think something other than food should also fit in there kind of in your own work personally what do you feel is almost and we can we can scale it down to Atlanta if we wish.

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But a top 10 health threat kind of that you're working with who was a scary. You know I mean and kind of reactionary as well you know a lot of them are the outcomes of insecurity and we know that nutrition is the basis for good healthy individual and community you know you know communities that are food secure and food sovereignty I think tend to relate a lot better to the world and deal with.

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The challenges that you know nature poses a lot better than the folks who are so yeah I think food is food in nutrition of the other on the basis to build on so now def you read it yeah. Yeah yeah I definitely agree I mean I think that that I see it kind of woven into that I think the challenge is is that into many of those that you listed I think the challenge is is that there's still that disconnection So you know I don't know who needs its own separate space where we have to be really intentional about how we.

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Address that you know that how food should be a major part of addressing those issues as threats. And I agree that that not only in the. Room. For sure. I think you also think about it my own self realize that this is a mile from here this is one of the hot spots for each other in the country.

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Or in the house I think for. Maternal child why bills 3rd world country is also within the city here so there are a lot of issues which. We need to address and that we can address and we should address is mostly in the country that we're you know that makes no sense.

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It's for the rich as we are in this dance technologically we are. On the fact assy you say it is in the top 3 What would you place as like your warning to them Do you know. That's of the day OK. You know. Probably. In the Atlanta area you are probably each or.

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Maternal child help. You know who plays a big part of their interest as well as well over the years so those you. Flee. Are. Hurried to. Think that is just about all of the questions that I have prepared but if you wish to say anything else as far as think media concluding statement on be.

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Good or or not I don't know. You know. This. Is. All foods are with you that I did that communities should be have the ability to produce the food and nutrition that they need to support you know all of their members So you know I think food security is kind of a sort of a level of where we what people and communities to to be in full sovereignty is the ultimate goal for people who are dependent on outside sources to provide I think you know that attrition which is the basis of pretty much all life so if.

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You are. There is question. Here you know you. Thank you so much for all to see. So much for. Helping me just as. I realize you. Have me here by. All. Where are you right now. Do you see going to be a real. Problem here one of the markets region right and there's a lot of work.

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Within that I mean it's out of practice of painting and the just food market here on campus in terms of we have a role called a bit chilly there so each station has its own vegetable and that person has kind of a script of information to share with the person who's shopping and that it's a way to get to know to have fostered good relationships with your community so that's really exciting and then there's also you know kind of behind the scenes where like I said we do a lot of advocacy type stuff and so policy and you know getting engaged on that in social media communications design with lots of these ways that that we'd love to have students and we do have a lot of students that work with us.

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Only saying. That. With your help initially it was through a number of programs where we have all or was the call that this was the gist of other bugs as well as behind the scenes. Positions we actually did have a. Meeting on March 25th and some information to the yeah and you can share that with with everyone or will be while.

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The good of some sort. He's a little. And if you're interested you know we love the. We can always use volunteers You know I'm boots on the ground so you know we always need people to come in and spread Moats pull weeds you know beautifying plant but I think you know as students you all kind of have the opportunity to look at some of the bigger questions that society is facing and you know probably most of you all know that you know by some estimates world population is one of these 10000000000 by 2050 and we would have to figure out how we feed all of these people you know I think in the U.S. we've got maybe 80 percent of folks what they've been in cities so how do we grow food in an efficient way that you know is is water wise is is is sustainable and is it producing so much pollution I think those are great engineering questions that you all can look at tackling.

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Pontiacs hydroponics controlled environment agriculture these are ways that you can kind of approach the problem from a technological standpoint also think that you know if you're connected to technology figure out better ways to reach people with you know turn in accurate information on you know maybe 2 apps or how powerful it maybe I think is a challenge that maybe you all can look to the to face it and deal with and keep doing what you're doing keep learning keep staying connected to folks who are in the field and get connected to the communities that are even just surrounding Georgia Tech and they'll probably most of you all are going to keep doing.

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Simple. Prior work. On a. Lot of local every. Day and for you. Internship Program. For example was really nice and you know that on the ground it's the needs a wedding you want to go to med school I would be ready would be about how does that work so the national parks are your hideout is now worth or whatever that looks like your magazine he is a place to live in this phase of conservation we need users and so will you is important in that partnership agreement that we need to know you and find there you know opportunity you know we have a lot of freshmen and sophomores like I'm just trying a new reality into all of the great opportunities in the world over this I mean you hate them it's the usually network with both the didn't have those years in senior magazines and graduating like this is what I want to do you can read my letter I made it about that and so you know that on the ground it's myriads you know I work in the right engine and our higher authorities that you work with well within the Department of Interior art that are closer to the greatly rewarded and a good mate are a little bit easier than others with a guy who recently Yeah but actually had it not that badly and that she will give it up with need values needed by the way.

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Yes that's the biggest part of what we do which is is actually PLAY see you know people know there's a students in the summer internship so check us out it out. Foundation dot org. And their nationals they don't have is that you know. Is it. Comes of this as if you were is a way that.

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You know you go for a verse or Hero things like farmers markets or water relationships or the dollar's worth or Mer her to sell is Green who chooses sooner. Or sees a video bigger issue a bit like. Well every other. Purses and bruises triage. More healthy locally grown blood there is difficult here now to get into the scale of it and I'm wondering if you can just talk of your thoughts around how you know better and what's worse currently there will be only other area for us to do your work are you talking about like that aggregation you know are there yeah like with like.

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Cooperative the monks farmers or universities utilizing their resources to grow food and get it out to the community and so on is Mrs Mortimer's right or is there just said institutions you have access to your health will stray Yeah that's a big issue because it's a big. You know the challenge in the US just say Atlanta meticulous for growing is access to land right and so I think that we have to address the realities I mean there there been some conversations and even some efforts.

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But I think some of this is a policy related and like we have to really put we have to create values around growing food urban agriculture in Atlanta communities and so on in my opinion and I think I can talk about to mean there are there are efforts and there are some things that are growing in success but I think at the root of it is that we have a huge land access issue when it comes to growing to this.

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There's no organization called the common market that does food aggregation especially with small scale producers and local growers you know where they'll take 10 pounds of you know collard greens and to another growers 20 pounds and be able to serve some of them are the institutional buyers where that is a major issue harm especially when these.

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Large organizations as a 2 sions are used to purchasing prices you know within the kind of the a scale so is it sounds that that we're facing and still don't have complete answers to but there are folks like the common market who are working in an area to try to solve some of those issues and there are also some local cooperatives that are forming on just recently sort of correlational farmers called the A lot of farmers correlation.

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Has has has started and is working in or working to organize farmers to to grow together and to do you know. Planning in and figure out access markets together as well so I think has happened is still in they some stage play is happening do you do you think that.

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Elin is kind of continue to struggle with reliable public transportation and. Help to contributed to some of this the reasons why it's hard to get the food to certain places or even bring it out to health in general some of the reasons why people wait so long until they receive care at a hospital.

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The only reason I ask is kind of growing up outside of New York City I always this picture of cities are a place where you can hop on a train or subway from any neighborhood in the city and kind of find your way to where you need to be fairly cheap and that's not necessarily the case you're not.

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Being without a car on a lot of times I do take MARTA places but it's it's a very long process to walk to MARTA station take my you know walk go busting stop take the bus. And do you see that as an issue with kind of the local farmers or even with the patients who care.

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I don't know I'm We did a study on the group Georgia about you know transportation. Kind of sounds you know kind of studying that concept and. What we've heard from communities was that you know they are they don't have a problem addressing when they feel that the solution is really community focus that they don't have a problem coming together and addressing their transportation issues.

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I think what has happened a lot of farmers markets. Is that they're not representative of the community you know the cross action of Atlanta communities and again I represent these markets I love these markets but if you go to an Atlanta farmer's market you are hard pressed to see people of color shopping at those markets and that's a problem and I don't think that that's a transportation problem I think it's a cultivation problem you see we're not really in gauging the entire community and addressing the needs of those communities and and making sure that they feel that this is a place for everybody.

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From this bed and. Transportation to you just. As you pointed out you have to walk 2 trains these might get the next train was him one or 2 kids and you don't feel well. How what we are not going to push through this and then you're also thinking about other competing priorities that you normally have $5.00 spent your children are you going to go to the hospital or going to Europeans and I understand that mix with something like here I'm not going to worry about what I you know later this year the so.

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Some of the work that we do the rural communities around the American Cancer Society. So that they begin people in those Room unities they felt that they didn't have a trans Hitchens' you because people would band together is the womb you're the person they are even this 120 miles away judge you.

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But there is a truck we'll call it before it will still take off take from. You don't necessarily see that it's. A big your question does come to it's a plume whole issue of income inequality and as has many of you home and no amount is going to most on income unequal.

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Cities in the country in the nation so you know that's a whole nother former conversation we can have with this is this your point. So I apologise you're heading south everywhere and if you are a student and you have a question for any of these 304 panelists then I bet they'll take it.

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And I have 2 related announcements to land one man is and what you please allow our guests to be ours before the mad scramble and ins are thrown out and so if you'll just let them starve themselves out of you wonder all. Jenny is here to vote agronomists if you do not wish to be photographed Please allow her.

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Yes this is what I'm saying to take your photograph so that then we know that you do not wish to appear in photographs OK. Counterintuitive but it makes sense if you want your photograph taken allow her to think about it. And and finally. We will be discussing in groups the questions on your little name tags and so if you are you know red blue green or yellow keep an eye out for your color compatriots so that you can find your discussion group and your lunch with them and I am not going to subdivide a room into parts and go all pre-K. teacher on you I know that you guys will find your discussion compatriots for a while.

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And finally thank you to my knowledge. Thank you thank. You. Farmer's Market says he. Should have our all star partners so if you have and I can imagine you have if you have become totally enamored with any. Of these fantastic folks then you know how to reach them.

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Talking to them. Or asking me for contact information. So thank you thank you. Thank you.