Clancy Cash Harrison is a food equity advocate, registered dietitian, TEDx speaker, and international thought leader who challenges the way food insecurity is approached and discussed. Her mission to demolish the stigma around food access places her on the cutting edge of advocacy. Clancy is the founder of the Food Dignity® Movement, a strategic program for leaders who want to shift how they approach nutrition outreach by making healthy food access a priority.
Clancy Cash Harrison: “How can we create solutions that work? First, I had to be humble enough to say I was wrong. One of the questions I started asking myself is, where am I wrong so I can be right? Now we have our volunteers asking the same question. What are we here to learn today from the people that we're working with?”
01:49 How uncovering personal bias began the Food Dignity Movement
04:56 Breaking down silos to collaboration
07:32 Defining hidden hunger
09:04 Why changemakers should adapt solutions to each unique audience
11:33 Creating solutions that work: “Where am I wrong so I can be right?”
14:19 Taking hunger out of the charity box
16:30 Driving systems change through local agriculture
17:41 How to use skepticism and appreciation to fuel changemaking
19:10 The material impact of one $8,000 walk in cooler
21:23 People are the experts in their life
22:50 Uncovering the “why” instead of judging food choices
25:16 How admitting what you don’t know can fuel personal growth
27:46 Call to action: find the cracks and be the glue
29:17 Takeaways for changemakers
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