Please join us for an evening of the ‘joy and justice of biodiversity’ with 

Co-Author of The Ark of Taste David Shields and Director of Network Engagement at Slow Food USA Deion Jones.

 

The author's book talk and the panel discussion to follow will highlight Slow Food's The Ark of Taste, a global and grassroots effort to catalog the amazing range of foods around us before they disappear and to raise awareness about how we can act together to preserve and promote these foods that represent that taste of place and a culture.

 

 

 

 

Deion Jones serves as the director of network engagement for Slow Food USA, which means he leads efforts in network growth, troubleshooting, and providing tools to network leaders and members. Food has been, and continues to be, a passion for Deion throughout his academic and professional endeavors. Both his undergraduate work at Florida Gulf Coast University, and his graduate work at University of Oregon, centered on food, focusing on sustainable sourcing and immigrant identity through food, respectively. Beyond academia, Deion dedicates his time to seeing as many corners of the food realm that he studied as possible from urban and rural farms and food banks with Feeding America, to public health and one of the best farm-to-table fine dining establishments in the world, Blue Hill at Stone Barns.

 

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