Please join us for Family Re-Union 14:  Families & Food Security as community residents, business leaders and policymakers seek solutions to the growing challenges of providing access to healthy, affordable food to all Middle Tennesseans.  

 
LISTEN, LEARN, LEAD
 

LISTEN

• To Keynote Speaker Makani Themba-Nixon, Director of the Praxis Project in Washington, DC,  an expert on race, media, policy advocacy and public health, speak on the issues of health equity and social justice, and
• To Rochelle Davis, Founding Director of the Healthy Schools Campaign in Chicago, speak about the ways in which Middle Tennesseans can promote healthier school food environments.

LEARN

• How you can use media and policy advocacy efforts to bolster support for food security and food access in Middle Tennessee, and
• How you can engage in local, state and national-level advocacy to improve Middle Tennessee’s school food environments.

LEAD

• By engaging in breakout sessions that will create action plans for policy changes that promote increased healthy food access in the communities, neighborhoods and schools of Middle Tennessee.
  

  
  

  Tentative Schedule*

• 9:30 a.m. - 10 a.m.
  Registration
  
  10 a.m.
• Welcome and Introduction
  Debbie Miller
  Director, Vanderbilt Child & Family Policy Center
  
  10:10 a.m.
  Keynote Presentation
  Media and Policy Advocacy to Advance Health Equity and Justice
  Makani Themba-Nixon, Director, The Praxis Project
  
  11 a.m.
  Panel - Food (In)access in Nashville
  Mary Kate Mouser, Vanderbilt Children's Health Improvement & Prevention
  Dr. Bettina Beech, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  Dr. David Padgett, Tennessee State University
  William S. Paul, MD, MPH, Metro Public Health Department of Nashville/Davidson County
  
  11:50 p.m.
  Lunch and Panel/ Presentation
  School Food and Fitness: Strategies for Addressing Health Disparities
  Rochelle Davis, Founding Director, Healthy Schools Campaign
  
  1:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
  Break
  
  1:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
  Breakout sessions
  Creating strategies: Healthy Food Retail & Healthy School Food
  
  *Times and session titles subject to change.