Through the SLEE Dinner keynote, CAGJ aims to raise consciousness of the critical issues we face in order to build food sovereignty and a healthy food system. We are grateful to all of our SLEE speakers ! Unfortunately we did not capture every year’s keynote by video, but those we have are linked below.
- 2007 Rosalinda Gillen, Community to Community
- Farmworkers’ rights
- 2008 Carlos Marentes, La Via Campesina, Comite for Immigration Reform and Social Justice
- Global farmer and migrant farmworkers’ rights
- 2009 Steve Williamson, UFCW 21
- Grocery store workers’ rights
- “Food Workers’ Rights in the Global Food Economy”
- 2010 Ben Burkett, National Family Farm Coalition, Federation of Southern Cooperatives
- African-American farmers and connection to Africa
- “Connecting US and African Farms for Food Sovereignty”
- 2011 Aba Ifeoma, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
- Urban farming
- “The Resurgence of Urban Agriculture & Bee-Keeping in Detroit”
- 2012 Valerie Segrest & Elise Krohn
- Indigenous food sovereignty, celebration of CAGJ’s publication, Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice
- “Cultivating Tribal Food Sovereignty”
- 2013 Saru Jayaraman, Restaurant Opportunity Center
- 2014 Niaz Dorry, Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance
- Fisherfolk food sovereignty
- “Who Feeds Us Matters: Fishers and Farmers Taking Back Control of Our Food Supply”
- 2015 Dean Jackson, Hilltop Urban Gardens
- Urban farming
- “Growing Racial, Economic and Gender Justice in Tacoma”
- 2016 Anuradha Mittal, Oakland Institute
- Solidarity with African food sovereignty movement
- “Decolonizing our Food System: Lessons from Africa”
- 2017 Ari de Leña, Kamayan Farm
- Local women farmers and food as medicine
- “Farming for Cultural and Ecological Resilience”
- 2018 Edgar Franks, Community to Community Development
- Immigrant rights and Agroecology
- “The Legacy We Inherit: Luchando por una vida AgroEcológica”
- 2019 Doria Robinson, Urban Tilth
- Food Sovereignty and Climate Justice
- “For the Love of Soil: Dismantling the Extractive Economy with Justice and Food Sovereignty”
- 2020 Tarik Abdullah, Feed The People
- Hope embodied by youth on the front lines of the Food Justice movement
- “Feed the People: Food, Kids, Community”
- 2021 Raj Patel, University of Texas at Austin and Rhodes University, South Africa
- Honoring resistance to the corporate globalization of our food and trade systems and celebrating the 20th anniversary of Community Alliance for Global Justice.
- “Is This What Democracy Looks Like? A Tale of Two Seattles”
- 2022 Black Star Farmers, Marcus Henderson, Derrick McDonald, Orian Grant, & Xander
- Celebrating Black and Indigenous led food justice organizing in Seattle
- “Reclaiming Food Sovereignty and Reconnecting to Indigenous Ways of Life”
- 2023 Malik Yakini, Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network
- Connecting Food Justice work in Detroit to cultivating an international Black Food Sovereignty movement that embraces Black communities in the Americas, the Caribbean and Africa
- “Black Food Sovereignty: Local to Global”
Art-work by Nikki McClure, who donated used of this paper-cut to CAGJ for the first dinner, and all future SLEE events.
