Field Reports
Safe Spaces: Incubators For Community Engagement
Alfred Gary III,
Emerson Fellow
Published 2023-2024
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Our food system reveals a divide between government and marginalized populations, leaving root problems neglected and leadership by Black, Indigenous, (and) People of Color (BIPOC) suppressed. To transform these systems, there needs to be deliberate collective impact and true co-creation. This report highlights the importance of Safe Spaces in BIPOC communities, how they exist as catalysts for change, and how they can fuel solutions to end hunger in marginalized populations. The hope is that this report will provide useful information and ideas that transcend the work at HFO, and other agencies and organizations committed to ending hunger and poverty in the state of Oklahoma
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Originally from Buffalo, New York, Alfred is a graduate of the University at Buffalo, earning his MPH with a concentration in Health Equity. Shaped by his life experiences as a Black male born and raised in Buffalo’s predominantly Black neighborhood, structural realities like food insecurity, lack of mobility, and mass incarceration, have fueled his aspirations to advance health and food equity in communities like his own. Following his graduate training, Alfred executed community-based research to promote food equity as a fellow in the UB Food Lab and has continued to fight food injustice by providing fresh produce, food, and meals to the underserved by working with Buffalo Go Green, a not-for-profit organization. As an Emerson fellow, Alfred looks forward to learning about successful policy strategies that can prevent food and health inequity, especially in Black communities and urban areas while amplifying voices directly impacted by hunger and poverty.
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