Courtesy of Nonprofit Quarterly
The struggle to shift how we relate to food is directly tied to ensuring future life on this planet…
In a recent article for the Nonprofit Quarterly, Real Food Real Stories’ Director, Jovida Ross, and Narrative Strategist, Shizue Roche Adachi, with cultural strategist Julie Quiroz, talk disrupting white supremacy logic in food systems change, witnessing food work as cultural work, embracing narratives of wholeness, and food’s powerful role in transforming culture at large.
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Nayantara Sen is a storyteller, writer, network builder, educator, and a defining practitioner in the field of narrative and cultural strategy. In the last two decades, Nayantara has trained thousands of activists, artists, educators and nonprofit professionals at the intersections of social justice, arts, culture, narrative and organizational change.
Nayantara joined the RFRS staff at the start of 2021, as we had begun to grow from a storytelling community into a culture change organization. Since she came on board at this pivotal moment in our work, we wanted to create an opportunity to reflect back on her time with the organization and offer a glimpse into some of the live questions and revelations that emerged.
Last month, Nayantara and Real Food Real Stories’ Narrative Strategist Shizue Roche Adachi sat down virtually for an expansive conversation on narrative and cultural strategy work in food, agriculture, and movement building. A meaty download, this conversation will be shared as a two-part series. In this first installment, we’ll dive into food’s role in reshaping our understanding of home, belonging, and our collective relationships in this time of social polarization, and what it means to embody transformative narratives as a daily practice.
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