This week, host Bianca Osbourne is joined by a guest who believes in the power of food as a meeting point – as a tool that creates space for people to come together. At FoodShare, Jade Guthrie is an educator with the freedom to explore space in relationship with communities across the city – cooking, preserving, eating, and learning together. Her background in social work (MSW) brings an anti-oppressive, critical lens to the work she does around food, with a focus on engaging with food justice and sovereignty movements in meaningful ways. Jade is particularly passionate about mobilizing the stories we tell (both ourselves and others) about food as a means of creating connections and building community. Beyond 9-5, jade is a community organizer with Justicia for Migrant Workers, an advocacy co-lead on the Toronto Youth Food Policy Council, and an organizing member of the Soul Food Project TO.

In today's episode, the duo discusses the lack of food security and justice covered in the last election, her love of throwing dinners parties with fully committed themes, how she decompresses with reality tv, the many missions of FoodShare Toronto, what she loves about working with youth; and what you'll only get when talking to kids, how food is the fabric that helps her weave together her identity as a tri-racial woman.
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