2020 Alaska Food Festival & Conference
November 6-7, 2020
Thank you for your interest in the 2020 Alaska Food Festival & Conference! We did our best to transform this experience into a virtual one. This was almost a 100% volunteer effort. We appreciate Your patience & Kindness as we navigate this together.
Check out our guides below for more information:
November 5th, 5:30-7:30pm:
Learn more on the film here: https://gather.film/
Director Sanjay Rawal Gave a brief introduction and hosted our post-screening, indigenous-led panel.
Pre-Conference Film Screening of GATHER
Co-hosted by Native Movement and Alaska Food Policy Council.
"Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide.
Gather follows Nephi Craig, a chef from the White Mountain Apache Nation (Arizona), opening an indigenous café as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation (South Dakota), conducting landmark studies on bison; and the Ancestral Guard, a group of environmental activists from the Yurok Nation (Northern California), trying to save the Klamath river."
THE ALASKA FOOD POLICY COUNCIL AND Alaska Village INitiatives, FRESH, and Alaska Pacific University ARE PARTNERING FOR THE 5TH SEMI-ANNUAL ALASKA FOOD FESTIVAL & CONFERENCE.
2020 Conference PARNTERS:
Alaska Village Initiatives is a non-profit membership-based company dedicated to improving the well-being of rural Alaska communities, families, and individuals. AgAlaska affords rural villages support and resources needed to begin community gardening farming and ranching. Information and links provide current grant opportunities, best garden practices, and resource links to government and non-government agencies.
FRESH, Food Research, Enterprise, and Sustainability Hub of the North works to catalyze the modern food landscape of tomorrow by honoring the living traditions of yesterday and harnessing the innovative spirit of today’s Circumpolar North.
Alaska Pacific University is small liberal arts college located in Anchorage, Alaska, that emphasizes experiential and active learning. APU, along with UAA, is home to FRESH.
2020 Keynote Speakers & SPecial Guests:
Valerie Segrest
Native American Agriculture Fund
Regional Director, Native Food & Knowledge Systems
Danielle Nierenberg
FOod tank,
co-founder & President
Sommer Sibilly-Brown
virgin islands good Food Coalition,
founder & Executive Director
Elise Krohn
Wild Foods & Medicines
herbalist, native foods specialist, educator, and author
Martha Pearson, Health Promotion Director &
Kate Fossman, RDN, LD, CDE & Nutrition Specialist
Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium
Bren Smith
GreenWave & Thimble Island Ocean Farm
EXECUTIVE Director
ANNE PALMER
JOHN HOPKINS CENTER FOR A LIVABLE FUTURE
PROGRAM DIRECTOR, FOOD COMMUNITIES & PUBLIC HEALTH
The goals of the conference and festival are to:
(1) increase awareness of Alaska food issues among the general population;
(2) provide training, resources, and networking opportunities to increase involvement in local food issues by community members and decision makers; and
3) increase connections and build community between the public, Alaska food businesses, NGOs, governmental entities, Tribal entities, and others to support local economic development and innovative solutions.
Thank you to all our many planning partners:
