Pictured/Photo credit: Tanya Fields Organizing community for food justice in the Bronx. In April 2019, Food Tank published its list of 14 African American Women Leading Change in the U.S Food System. Tanya Fields was among the many thought leaders featured. The Bronx-based food justice activist and educator is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Black Feminist Project (formerly BLK Projek), close to ten years in operation this year. Through the nonprofit, Fields explores food injustice issues and economic development as it affects Black women and children. Food inaccessibility in New York City’s South Bronx neighborhood was the catalyst for Fields launching a mobile produce bus. She established Libertad Urban Farm to spark the conversation around the absence of healthy food and the lack of food education available and accessible to low-income residents and women of color in the surrounding communities. “The farm looks beautiful and I am really proud of the fruit trees we have, but the space is not just about growing food,” she says. “Green space is important, but it is also a communal space. A little pocket of utopia in an area that has to exist in spite of many of the circumstances […]
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