Goger Annelies - Institutions as conscious food consumers: leveraging purchasing power to drive systems change

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Sapna E. Thottathil

Annelies M. Goger

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Peter H. Allison (175), Farm to Institution New England, Hartland, VT, United States

Catherine Bartoli (127), Get Healthy Philly, Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Thomas M. Bass (195), Animal & Range Sciences Extension Service, Montana State University Extension, Bozeman, MT, United States

Deborah Bentzel (285), The Food Trust, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Megan Bucknum (285), Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, United States

Carmen Byker Shanks (195), Food and Health Lab, Department of Health and Human Development, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States

Christine C. Caruso (261), University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT, United States

Gina Castillo (21), Oxfam America, Boston, MA, United States

Kathryn Colasanti (149), Center for Regional Food Systems, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States

Lindsey Day Farnsworth (103), Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States

Alexa Delwiche (103), Center for Good Food Purchasing, Berkeley, CA, United States

Jonathan Deutsch (127), Center for Food and Hospitality Management; Department of Nutrition Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Claire M. Fitch (77), Farm Forward, Portland, OR, United States

Benjamin Fulton (127), Center for Food and Hospitality Management, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Annelies M. Goger (47), Social Policy Research Associates, Oakland, CA, United States

Kristal Jones (21), National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, University of Maryland, Annapolis, MD, United States

Kendra Klein (239), Friends of the Earth, Berkeley, CA, United States

Hannah R. Leighton (175), Farm to Institution New England, Hartland, VT, United States

Elise Littler (307), Farm Animal Protection, The Humane Society of the United States, Washington, DC, United States

Colleen Matts (149), Center for Regional Food Systems, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States

Colleen McKinney (103), Center for Good Food Purchasing, Berkeley, CA, United States

Kristie Middleton (307), Farm Animal Protection, The Humane Society of the United States, Washington, DC, United States

Brandy-Joe Milliron (127), Department of Nutrition Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Kranti Mulik (219), Fairfax, Virginia, United States

Jenna Newbrey (239), Health Care Without Harm, Reston, VA, United States

Kimberly Pfeifer (21), Oxfam America, Boston, MA, United States

Nessa J. Richman (175), Rhode Island Food Policy Council, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States

Amy Rosenthal (261), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

Raychel E. Santo (77), Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States

Joel B. Schumacher (195), Department of Agricultural Economics & Economics, Montana State University Extension, Bozeman, MT, United States

Emma Sirois (239), Health Care Without Harm, Reston, VA, United States

Sapna E. Thottathil (3), University of California, Office of the President, Oakland, CA, United States

Kaitlin K. Wojciak (149), Michigan State University Extension, East Lansing, MI, United States

Alexandra Zeitz (127), Center for Food and Hospitality Management, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Anim Steel

My first experience of politics was in middle school. My parents, a black Ghanaian woman and a white American man who had relocated the family from West Africa to Washington D.C., took my sister and me to a protest in front of the South African embassy. Circling the sidewalk that cold night, with the candles melting onto our fingers, we became part of a worldwide movement to support the freedom struggle in South Africa. Later that year, the University of California Board of Regents was compelled by student protests to withdraw billions of dollars of assets from South Africa, joining over a hundred other universities and municipalities in the divestment campaign.

This was the 1980s. Apartheid then seemed as intractable as the Cold War and as durable as Ronald Reagan, whose administration was no friend to the anti-apartheid movement. And so, just five years later, my family was riveted by the television images of Nelson Mandela waving to the crowds from the balcony of Cape Town City Hall after nearly three decades in prison.