NESAWG News
Our new Executive Director, Cristina Cabrera, joined the NESAWG team on April 4th. We are so excited to have her wisdom, experience, and perspective guiding our work!
NESAWG is fortunate enough to be part of such a rich network and have the wonderful opportunity to work with BIPOC organizations that are fighting towards critical change. We'd like to share a few highlights of NESAWG programming over the years that feature individuals and groups that have been doing the work to create a just and equitable food system and continue to build a sustainable food landscape for all of us.
Walden Mutual is the first new mutual banking charter in New Hampshire in 100 years! Walden's mission is to provide financing options for farmers and other agricultural entrepreneurs throughout New England and New York. Christina Johantgen, Head of Marketing at Walden Mutual Bank, shares about her journey to the banking industry and what Walden hopes to accomplish in the next 5 years.
In January, NESAWG and Community Food Funders hosted a webinar to coincide with the release of an updated regional food systems report hosted by NESAWG. The webinar and report generated some (deserved) pushback from our community regarding their positionality towards and treatment of racial equity. We have reflected as a staff and board about organizational mistakes made in our stewardship of this programming, and lessons learned for future decision making.
NESAWG undertook this project in the fall of 2022 to begin to assess Northeast positioning going into the 2023 Farm Bill year. We asked network respondents about the quality and quantity of their congressional relationships, their priorities for the Farm Bill, and their needs for regional coordination. Here are the results.
Since 2018, NESAWG has given 25% of the funds we raise during our end of year appeal to a Northeast-based, BIPOC-led, equity-centered organization with a food systems program. We were very excited to present this award to Roots 2 Empower in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. We had a chance to sit down with founder Tarshire Battle and learn more about her organization and what brings her to this work.
Our Executive Director, Tracy Lerman, reflects on what it means to lead a network
Submit your nominations for the recipient of NESAWG's 2021 Mutual Aid Award - nominations due September 15, 2021.
Take action on marker bills to have your priorities included in upcoming legislation
NESAWG'S response to the events that happened on Jan. 6th and our demands (lifted up from the Movement for Black Lives and the Working Families Party).
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