Tag: Food Justice

  • Cooking Class Bridges Divide for Refugee Moms and Their American Daughters

    Twice a month, refugee women and their children congregate at the City Heights Wellness Center for a cooking class. It started as a way for the moms to share traditional recipes with their teenage daughters, but the American-raised girls wanted to throw U.S. favorites like pizza and stir-fry into the mix. | Video Credit: Katie…

  • Video: Crawford Garden is a Reminder of Home for Refugee Students

    By Katelyn Anacona, James Burrell, Mark Duvall, Starz Loreto and Julissa Mora The following video was produced by youth in the Media Arts Center San Diego’s Teen Producers Project.  

  • Navigating Food Traditions as a Somali Refugee Family

    By Ruxandra Guidi Mana Ahmed Mohamed arrived in San Diego from Somalia with her husband and oldest son in 1997. They have since had a boy and two girls here. One of the things she found most challenging, she said, was finding the kinds of foods that were acceptable by her faith, Islam. “When I…

  • Field Guide: The Refugee Paradox

    By Megan Burks [Editor’s Note: Field Guide is a weekly email bringing you the news, explainers and action items needed to navigate your changing community. Click here to subscribe.] FIELD GUIDE TOOLBOX Fresh Fund \ˈfresh\ \ˈfresh\ n. A program that doubles food stamps, Women, Infant and Children (WIC) vouchers, and Supplemental Security Income (SSI/Disability) when spent…

  • Cultivating Community in Southeast SD

    Diane Moss is executive director of Project New Village, a nonprofit that recently broke ground on its first community garden in Mount Hope. | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido For more than 20 years, Diane Moss ran a teen pregnancy prevention program in southeastern San Diego’s low income, largely African-American and Latino neighborhoods.…