U.S. #breastfeeding leadership: want to close racial disparity in BF rates? Look in the mirror. http://t.co/BuudzlOvNK @iamKSealsAllers

Children's Health and Well-being

Kimberly Seals Allers, Breastfeeding Warrior Video Posted March 31, 2012 Kimberly talks about the importance of breastfeeding as the First Food, and its impact on the health and wellbeing of Black babies.	Retelling the Black Breastfeeding Story By Kimberly Seals Allers Posted March 20, 2012 BB360 is a new, multi-media resource library for perspectives and voices of the Black breastfeeding experience.	Kimberly Seals Allers Selected as Expert for Federal Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign Posted March 5, 2012 Kimberly Seals Allers Named Breastfeeding Commentator for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Break Time for Nursing Mothers Campaign	Beyonce's choice a Black breastfeeding moment By Kimberly Seals Allers Posted March 2, 2012 Kimberly Seals Allers says Beyonce breastfeeding is a moment we need to claim for African American women.
Growing food sovereignty in the desert Posted February 14, 2012	Healthy Trends in School Cafeterias By Andrea King Collier Posted February 13, 2012	Another puritanical breastfeeding debacle: Oh the hypocrisy! By Kimberly Seals Allers Posted January 4, 2012 I’m not really sure why breasts can be openly used to sell beer and entice people to eat chicken wings at Hooters, but when they are used in their actual context — feeding a baby — people get all puritanical.	From “Food Desert” to “Food in the Desert” Posted October 31, 2011
MO Good Food For California Kids Posted October 26, 2011	FoodCorps steps in to help schools do what they couldn’t otherwise afford By Jane Black Posted October 6, 2011 FoodCorps puts boots on the ground to develop the programs that many educators believe are important but, in an era of drastic budget cuts, don’t have the resources to fund.	“First Food” is Real Food Justice By Kimberly Seals Allers Posted August 29, 2011 No conversation about equitable food systems can truly exist without understanding how the racial and social inequities around breastfeeding adversely affect vulnerable populations.	Foodcorps Launches! Posted August 16, 2011 FoodCorps, the new national service organization dedicated to addressing childhood obesity and diet-related disease by building school gardens and developing Farm to School programs, launches this week.

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Cultivating Leadership and Equity in the Food Movement

April 2013

The IATP Food and Community Fellows Program is coming to an end, but it's springtime for our work growing equity in the food system and cultivating diverse leadership in the movement.

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Food Policy Children's Health and Well-being Food Workers Community Economic Development Growing Food Movement Building Health Equity Food and Culture

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