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03/20/2023

Here's your chance to help make school meals healthier for the millions of students who eat them every school day! Submit a comment today: https://act.yourethecure.org/Zgv9UqM
Thank you to Malina Malkani, LLC and Healthy Eating Research for sharing this important information! https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cp_DvCHLP8o/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Malina Malkani, MS, RD, CDN | Pediatric Dietitian (.mom.healthy.kids) on Instagram: "💚 Wondering how YOU can make an impact on child nutrition❓Here’s our chance! 🫶 Take les..."

11/08/2022

Live in the DC-area?

Join us on Monday, November 14 for an *in-person* conversation at Busboys and Poets about how to open hearts and minds and garner support from people with differing views on issues that affect us all.

Speakers include:

- Loretta Ross, professor and activist, is a recipient of the 2022 MacArthur “Genius Award,” scholar on the digital “calling out” culture, and advocate for “calling in.”

- Lara Schwartz is Director of the Project on Civil Discourse at American University, and teaches how dialogue across difference is a skill that can be taught and must be learned and practiced.

- Harsha Mudaliar is a recent American University School of Public Affairs graduate, who has trained peer facilitators on conflict moderation, first amendment school speech rights, and navigating difficult conversation topics.

RSVP here to let us know you're coming:

Join our in-person conversation with professor and activist Loretta Ross, recipient of the 2022 MacArthur “Genius Award,” scholar on the “digital calling out culture,” and advocate for “calling in.” She will be joined by Lara Schwartz, Director, Project on Civil Discourse at American Uni...

09/26/2022

"My fear is not only against some senseless gunman but against an unspoken and assumed responsibility that my mom has to be a hero."
Burnesser and daughter of public school teachers, Amy Rooker, makes a heart-wrenching case for .

Statistics mentioned in this piece come from a recent CityHealth report.

There’s no commandment etched into stone that teachers must sacrifice themselves for their students, but the feeling that they should is as palpable as it is suffocating. In many ways, teachers are their students’ protectors and advocates, charged with their wellbeing and education until the sch...

09/14/2022

Meet Josie Caballero, the director of the .

She has dedicated her life to amplifying . Under her leadership, this year's survey is anticipated to reach about 60,000 trans folx, which will be double the population surveyed back in 2015. These results will inform decision-makers across fields about the needs of trans folx. https://bit.ly/3d0oysl

09/13/2022

Cassava is the future of agriculture according to NextGen Cassava.

If you're not already familiar with the root crop, you may have consumed it in the forms of:

-Yuca Fries 🍟
-Tapioca pearls in boba drinks 🍵
-Wheat-alternative bread 🍞

Explore the new NextGen Impact report, detailing the radical transformation of cassava breeding practices across sub-Saharan Africa that are now in high demand across the continent.

09/11/2022

Happy Grandparents Day! Thank you to all the families who shared your incredible stories and memories with us – we celebrate you today and every day. Today, we hope you’ll hug your loved ones tight – and don’t forget to dance!

09/09/2022

Fighting and have to also include solutions because our health and the climate are intricately interconnected.

Humans and wild animals are facing new challenges for survival because of the climate crisis - how more frequent and intense drought, storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and warming oceans can directly harm animals, destroy the places they live, and wreak havoc on people's liveli...

09/08/2022

How can we reframe the way we think about obesity?

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides some ideas:
-Food is more than nutrition
-Health is more than weight
-Diet is more than individual choice

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09/06/2022

We can finally look forward to a world where an effective treatment can cure drug-resistant !

Volodymyr is celebrating a major milestone on Wednesday -- it's his final day of taking a new treatment hailed as a turning point in the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis.

09/02/2022

What’s the survey?

- 5-minute, anon survey to understand the monkeypox outbreak in NYC

- Led by a team of q***r and trans, NYC-based researchers.

- Findings could help inform distribution of vaccines

Take the survey ➡️ https://bit.ly/3zN7b5J

08/31/2022

“We should always make sure that we invest in indigenous communities because our unique point of view, our way of living is an absolute solution on how we can combat the climate crisis." -Lido Pimienta

https://ifnotusthenwho.me/meet-the-mentees/