172: Food Insecurity & Food Injustice: Stigma & Solutions – Clancy Harrison

As a registered dietitian, TEDx speaker, international speaker, and author, Clancy Harrison challenges the way food insecurity is approached in the US. Her mission to demolish the stigma around healthy food access places her on the cutting edge of advocacy.

Tune in to this episode to learn about:

• Clancy’s personal story of how she woke up to her own food elitism as a registered dietitian
• Melissa’s personal story about being on food stamps as a young child
• the enlightening definitions of “hunger” and “food insecurity”
• the different faces of food insecurity - even in your own community
• how food is viewed differently depending on a person’s level of food security/insecurity
• what is food injustice
• how stigma and shame play a powerful role and how to challenge and change this
• why and how language matters
• how using positive curiosity helps you learn more about opinions you disagree with and break down misconceptions within the realm of food insecurity 
• what the Food Dignity® Project is and how you can make a difference in your community or organization

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