Faith Communities and the Work of Ending Hunger

Rev. Jennifer Bailey, a minister in the historically Black church tradition with past work at Community Food Advocates in Nashville and Interfaith Youth Core, on food insecurity and the role of religious communities in ending hunger. She framed an interfaith response as cultivation, planting and harvest, citing Sikh langar, Interfaith Worker Justice's "fast from fast food," and the University of Illinois Interfaith in Action group's million meals for Haiti. Spring 2015 series "Food Justice." The audience dialogue covered SNAP, the farm bill, the minimum wage, local CSA farm donations and homelessness.