Episode 156: What is The Food Dignity Movement?
About the Podcast
In 8 minutes, Clancy describes what the Food Dignity Movement is all about!
About Clancy Harrison
As a registered dietitian, TEDx speaker, international speaker, and author, Clancy Harrison challenges the way food insecurity is approached in the US. Her mission to demolish the stigma around healthy food access places her on the cutting edge of advocacy.
Clancy is the founder of the Food Dignity® Project, a strategic program for leaders who want to shift how they approach nutrition outreach by making healthy food access a priority. She transforms the lives of thousands of people through her work with corporations, non-profit organizations, and universities.
Currently, Clancy is an advisory board member for the Pennsylvania American Academy of Pediatrics Food Insecurity EPIC program, Ambassador of the National Dairy Council, and the President of the Al Beech West Side Food Pantry. Since the onset of COVID-19 Clancy has distributed nearly 1 million meals in her community to improve access to healthy food through effective collaborations.
Discussion Takeaways
- What is the Food Dignity® Movement? We don’t have a definition because it’s a movement. The definition means something different to everyone. However, our work always has three goals:
- Empower ourselves: We try to understand how our thoughts and judgments impact our behaviors toward others. Our goal is to be humble and to never to assume that we know the problem.
- Lift up other organizations: We do this through intentional collaboration.
- Center the people we work with: We want the people we serve to feel comfortable being honest about what they truly need.
- Our team works with the following messages in mind:
- What is my lesson today?
- Where are we wrong, so we can be right?
#1 tip to improve access to healthy food
Food equity only exists if we recognize our judgement.
Each week on the Food Dignity® Podcast, the Food Dignity® Movement's Clancy Harrison hosts a wide variety of hunger experts and other people making changes on the frontlines. Join us as we dive deep into conversations that will change the way you think about food insecurity.
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