Food Access

Food@MSU's inaugural Our Table discussion focused on the importance of increasing availability of healthy food.

Cristo Rey Community Center

Lansing, Mich.

Panelists

Dilli Chapagai, refugee and immigrant liaison, Greater Lansing Food Bank Garden Project

Joe Garcia, director, Cristo Rey Community Center

Joan Nelson, director, Allen Neighborhood Center

Rich Pirog, director, MSU Center for Regional Food Systems

Lorraine Weatherspoon, professor, MSU Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition

 

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