Legislating Better Health Through Food Policy

Food Policy For Breakfast Series 

Discussion + Networking + Healthy Breakfast Served

(This is a FREE Event)

Legislating Better Health Through Food Policy

Why is it so difficult to get seemingly positive food legislation passed in a progressive NYC? And what does food have to do with human rights?

Panelists:

• Alex Beauchamp, Northeast Region Director, Food & Water Watch
• Margaret Brown, JD, staff attorney, New York Program, Natural Resources Defense Council NY Program
• Smita Narula, JD, MA, distinguished lecturer and interim director, Human Rights Program, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
• Margot Pollans, JD, assistant professor of law, Pace Law School; Faculty Director of the Pace-NRDC Food Law Initiative

Moderator: Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH, executive director of the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center

Healthy Breakfast Will Be Served @ 8:30am, Talk at 9am

Hosted by the
Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center and
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College