Applications open Tuesday, Nov 10! 🎉 We can't wait to meet you. Explore the landing page, meet our Benefactors, watch the videos, and see what our fellows have done. Review the questions Nov 10. Apply by Dec 14, 2026. Start here: aspenfood.org/food-leaders-f…

Best sandwich at @PublicHealth in San Antonio! With Hilary Seligman and @marionnestle, who received the Sara Samuels Award and a citation by Victoria Zigmont, PhD MPH that credited her not only with unflagging moral courage bout for changing the emphasis on diet-related health to marketing and governmental decisions and policies.

Co-moderating a lightning session at #APHA2026 with Shakira Azeez Salami on bringing better nutrition to communities was a delight. So many innovative, engaged, rigorous researchers! For more inspiring examples like theirs: FIMCommunity.org

“You’re creating an army — an army that’s going out there in a very quiet, but very potent way of passion, knowledge, and really wanting to make life better.”

That’s chef, author, and Food Leaders Fellowship Benefactor Lydia Bastianich, describing this year’s cohort of the Food year, the Aspen Institute selects 18 leaders out of 400+ applicants, for an 18-month program built around one idea: the people solving America’s food system can’t do it in silos.

If you’re already doing the work, applications for the next cohort open November 10th.

📍 Learn more: aspenfood.org/food-leaders-f…
#FoodSystems #FoodPolicy #Leadership #AspenInstitute

Thank you to the @aspenideas team for having me moderate "Mother Road Market: Food Entrepreneurship and Small Business" in Tulsa. Great conversation with Kathy Taylor, Elizabeth Frame Ellison, JJ Johnson, and Tariq Sheriff. #AspenIdeasEconomy

When institutions lose credibility, people go looking for their own sources, even extreme ones. We discussed @nytimes Magazine story on what the “dark nutrition” trend says about trust in public health messaging, and what communicators can learn from it.

Full story: aspenfood.org/2026/10/23/why…
#FoodPolicy #Nutrition @BosPublicRadio

Applications for Cohort 6 of the Food Leaders Fellowship are opening Tuesday. Nov 10. If you're building something that makes our food system better and you want the people, plan, and partners to go further, this is your invitation. Seminars, mentors, and a community that stays ber to our newsletter? Join now to get the application link first: aspenfood.org/food-leaders-f…
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Conversations on Food Justice recording now available: 4 leaders on building a fairer food system—employee ownership, farm labor organizing, and why 2 in 3 food workers can't afford to eat the food they help produce.

Watch: ow.ly/rA4y50ZUHoU
@GW_GlobalFood
#FoodJustice tice

Food insecurity is a health issue.

Last month I had the privilege of sitting down with Public Health Solutions President and CEO Cassaundra Howell for a fireside chat at Beyond the Plate, a policy briefing on food insecurity in New York. We talked about how policy, health care, ions can work together so every New Yorker has access to nutritious food.

Read PHS’s case study on its Food is Medicine Community Action Plan: fimcommunity.org/cases/public-h…
#FoodInsecurity #FoodIsMedicine

The people who feed America can't afford to eat. Thank you to Jose Oliva, HEAL Food Alliance for sharing this reality on Conversations on Food Justice.
Watch: aspenfood.org/video/the-peop…
#FoodJustice #FarmWorkerRights

Dignity isn't a benefit. It's a baseline. Emma Scott, Vermont Law & Graduate School, on why worker-owned cooperatives are gaining ground.
More: aspenfood.org/video/the-peop…
#FoodJustice #WorkerOwnedCoop

Young farmers. Veterans. Immigrants. Former farm workers. They're not just filling labor gaps, they're the future of American agriculture. Aspen Food Leaders Fellow Vanessa Garcia Polanco of the National Young Farmers Coalition on Conversations on Food Justice. I
#FoodJustice #FarmWorkers

The recording from our Conversations on Food Justice panel is up.

Mike Brady, CEO of 40 Million Owners, shares why employee ownership is the next frontier of food and economic justice. More: aspenfood.org/conversations-…

Conversations on Food Justice recording now available: 4 leaders on building a fairer food system—employee ownership, farm labor organizing, and why 2 in 3 food workers can't afford to eat the food they help produce.

Watch: ow.ly/rA4y50ZUHoU
@GW_GlobalFood
#FoodJustice tice

We're live! Join "The People Who Feed Us: Building a Food System That Works for Workers" right now, through 2 PM ET. aspeninstitute.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

I asked a room of food-systems people when they last bought cod: four hands went up.

Turns out cod might be america's original heirloom food — 10,000 years of history, an entire trade economy built on it — and we just... stopped eating it. Turn on the volume or even better, listen to a great panel hosted by @foodtank!

Tomorrow! "The People Who Feed Us: Building a Food System That Works for Workers," prodced by @AspenFood and @GW_GlobalFood, airs live Oct 1, 1-2 PM ET. Free and open to all: grab your spot now: aspenfood.org/2026/08/07/con…

I liked this very, very much. In a gently amusing and friendly but unsettling way, it’s the most fascinating personal discussion about what AI will do to our future and why our anxiety is rising. @NewYorker newyorker.com/culture/the-ne…

Lovely Dan Imhoff account of lunch with @AliceWaters:

The juicy Bronx grapes she placed in my hand as I drove off literally stuck to me on the way home as did one of the last things she said:

“When I think I have an idea that I have talked to lots of people about, I don't let it go,” she said. “School Supported Agriculture is what I believe in right now. I'll let it go ... if it really doesn't work. But I was always that way with Chez. I was sure it was going to work. And I don't know whether it's about love or determination, but they kind of go together for me."
danimhoff.substack.com/p/lunch-with-a…

Marion folded her arms, looked into the camera, and said: "Presumably, you asked me here for a reason." That was mid-pandemic, my students star-struck into small talk. Ten minutes in, she'd had enough. Vintage Marion. Happy 90th to the most matchlessly lucid person I know.

Thank you @foodtank for hosting a great celebration: ow.ly/IZSb50ZRunE