Thank you, summit volunteers!

Following our 16th annual Chicago Food Justice Summit, we want to extend a huge thank you to all of our summit planning team!

This year, our volunteers assisted in evaluating all the presentation proposals we received to build the summit schedule, brainstormed and coordinated cooking demonstrations, yoga, and other enrichment activities for participants to engage with, supported all of our accessibility features including closed captioning, American Sign Language interpretation, and Spanish language audio translations, and lastly conducted wide outreach to ensure as many Chicagoans as possible were invited to attend our summit.

The success of year’s virtual summit was only possible with the guidance and support of all of the following people:

Virtual Event Planner: Candace Clark

Screenshot of Programming and Logistics volunteers on a Google Hangouts meeting

Flavor and Reimagination
Summit Leaders: Wendy Zeldin and Michelle Li
Volunteers:
- Ilana Marder-Eppstein
- Denise RuizHanna Gregor
- Charlotte Rivard-Hoster
- Ale Flores
- Daliah Silver
- Nia Scott
- Isabel Markowski
- Rachel Roberts
- Sharmain Siddiqui

Communications and Engagement
Summit leaders: Ashia Aubourg and Nora Bryne
Volunteers:
- Meagan Havlik
- Laura Nussbaum-Barberena
- Monica Meriweather
- David Weitzman
- Benjamin Corpuz
- Emily O'Keeffe

Programming and Logistics
Summit leaders: Baba Orrin Williams and Jazmin Martinez
Volunteers:
- Caitlin Donato
- Ryan Haefke
- Lisa Chou
- Channa Ring
- Moses Viveros

Strategies for Accessibility
Summit leaders: Tafadzwa (Taffy) Gwitira and Trix Kirkpatrick
Volunteers:
- Chelsea Hammersmith
- Arden Baldinger
- Laura Bessenecker
- Luis Gaspar
- Flor Revolorio
- Erin Horetski
- Paige Pickerl
- Claudia Espinel