An illustration in response to "A scoping review of the conceptualizations of food justice" by Sandra Murray, Fred Gale, David Adams, and Lisa Dalton. This article breaks down food justice into five themes, the first being "Social Equity." 

The article states that the food system is symbiotically linked to public health. Yet, even when there's enough food in the world to feed everyone, there are a number of factors—climate change, inadequate food distribution, a surplus of low-nutrition/overly processed foods—that lead to undernourished communities. "Food justice Is emerging as a powerful mobilizing concept for driving social change to address food inequities from a more than human perspective—referring to the inseparability of human and natural interactions—but in theory and practice, it is a contested term. 

This work is part of my residency with Boston's The Eliot School Fine and Applied Arts where I'll work with a group of Boston teens to facilitate conversations around food justice. We'll learn about and collaborate with organizations focusing on urban farming, food distribution, nutrition, community cooking classes, food as acts of resistance, native crop preservation, and more to understand the time, love, labor, culture, and policy that goes into the food we consume. These engagements will culminate in a series of illustrations that detail stories and processes about the food ecosystem in Boston.