Climate, Health, and Food: Empowering Communities to Work at the Intersections

Health philanthropy likes to place its work into discrete buckets, but these hard lines do not really exist in the world. The labels we place on issues –health, climate change, food security– are interwoven into the fabric of communities, experienced at the same time by everyone. In communities, intersectionality is not elective, and it is both the name and the mode of action by which they respond, adapt, and win against the political, social, and economic challenges of our time.

Join us for a conversation with Environmental Health Watch and Sprout, two communities that are successfully putting this mode of action into practice. They will share strategies on how they are responding to climate change, health, and food security at the same time, showing what is possible when philanthropy stops treating these issues as separate and allows communities to truly work at the intersections.

• Arianna Mack, Program Manager of Healthy Communities and Climate, Environmental Health Watch
• Mina Seck, Community Food Director, Sprout
• Jan Delatorre, Program Office, The Kresge Foundation (Moderator)