Dear cool person, you're invited to an evening filled with some drinking and thinking!
About the evening:
In the information age, we have developed a very complex relationship with our food. Join the Drink Salon on Tech and Ethics for a focused discussion on Boston's local food system.
The evening will begin with opening comments and a macro-level look at Boston's food system and its resilience with one of the lead authors of the recent food resilience studies conducted for Boston, Resilient Food Systems, Resilient Cities: Recommendation for the City of Boston.
The night will then continue with local food innovators Grove Labs, a technology start-up focused on bringing food production into people's homes, and Fresh Food Generation, a food truck which focuses on bringing the farm-to-table concept to low-income neighborhoods in Boston.
There will of course be snacks!
The event will kick-off with this month's Drink Salon Community Curator, Kathryn Wright.
Community Curator: Kathryn Wright
Speakers: Liz Cormack, Austin Nijuis & Jackson Renshaw
We'll have some light snacks and drinks (boozy & non-boozy) for you as well!
RSVP is required for entrance. 21+ event. Bring your ID.
Seating is limited to 80 guests.
Suggested donation: $8 or pay what you can at door.
Your donations at the door go directly to help cover the drinks and food, and support the community that makes Drink Salon possible!
About EMW Drink Salon on Tech & Ethics
EMW's Drink Salon on Tech and Ethics brings together a community and a supportive space to spark challenging discussions on the role of technology in our everyday lives. Each month, we invite featured speakers to lead a conversation. We encourage salon guests to make new connections and to think critically about how technology relates to some of the most important questions we ask humanity.
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Scroll down for speaker/ organizer bios &
a schedule for the night!
Kathryn Wright is a member of the Drink Salon volunteer team. By day, she is a sustainability consultant at Meister Consultants Group.
By night, she dances and is the co-founder and CEO of a solar software start-up MySunBuddy. Kathryn completed her graduate studies at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where worked on several projects focused on New Haven's food system and directed the Environmental Film Festival at Yale.
Grove Labs
Liz designs cross-platform experiences at Grove, a startup working to instill a deeper appreciation for our food, starting with connected devices that grow fruits & vegetables in your home.
She organizes events through DxBoston, a design & innovation series by AIGA, and sits on the board of Press Pass TV, a non-profit empowering youth in Boston through media literacy. She runs a Meetup group called 'Gastronauts,' a supper club on the hunt for weird food in Boston.
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City
Austin Nijhuis is a senior research analyst at the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), a non-profit economic research and strategy organization based in Boston. Austin is responsible for synthesizing, analyzing, and mapping demographic and economic data to understand key trends impacting inner city businesses and economies. Austin is a co-author on a recent study, Resilient Food Systems, Resilient Cities: Recommendations for the City of Boston, that looked at how Boston’s food system could be impacted by a natural disaster.
Prior to joining ICIC, Austin worked as a researcher at Boston College where he analyzed environmental data, produced award winning GIS maps, and presented his work both regionally and internationally. Austin holds a M.S. in Geology from Boston College and a B.S. in Economics and Geology from Tulane University.
Fresh Food Generation
Jackson Renshaw is co-founder of Fresh Food Generation, a Caribbean and Latin American inspired food truck and catering company that works to provide healthy affordable prepared food to low income neighborhoods of Boston.
He began working with food and learning about the different food systems at the age of 16 when he decided that the easiest way to feed people was to grow food. From there he pursued a degree in Ecological Agriculture at The University of Vermont while working on farms during his summer breaks.
KC, aka DJ Pink0, loves dance music more than life itself. She plays anything that speaks to her soul- mainly house, techno, and disco- and hopes her mixes take people on a body journey. When she's not writing her prisoner pen pals or organizing fundraisers for prison justice, she is spinning records and dancing in basements and clubs all over Boston.
