Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2021 Serve-A-Thon

The 2021 Serve-A-Thon focuses on a series of virtual workshops addressing the intersectionality of food justice followed by a virtual service activity with a non-profit partner organization.Each virtual workshop includes a dialogue with an anti-hunger organization on the intersections of food security and hunger with social issues such as environmental justice, racial justice, urban development, and public health. Volunteers will then participate in a 1-hour virtual service project to support the fight to end domestic hunger.

To learn more and register to attend a workshop, please visit http://vhub.at/MLKServeAThon.

Workshop Schedule:

Monday January 18th

12-2pm EST/9-11am PST

• Food Justice is Cultural Diversity: Culturally appropriate food assistance
• Food Justice is Racial Justice: Racial wealth gap learning simulation
• Food Justice is WIC Justice: Food assistance for women, infants, and children
• Food Justice is Mental Heath: The intersections of trauma and injustice

2:30-4:30pm EST/11:30am-1:30pm PST

• Faith and Food Justice: Teen focused workshop on the impacts of faith on anti-hunger work
• Food Justice is Health Justice: A health equity training
• Food Justice is Housing Justice: Environmental and sustainable housing and food justice
• Technology for Positive Social Change with HFA: The role of data in hunger solutions

5-7pm EST/2-4pm PST

• Food Justice is Spirituality: A conversation with faith leaders on food insecurity
• Food Justice is Housing Justice: The intersections of housing and food assistance
• Food Justice is Racial Justice: BIPOC communities and food insecurity
• Food Justice is Racial and Gender Justice: Race, gender, and food insecurity

Tuesday January 19th

12-2pm EST/9-11am PST

• Food Justice Cultivated in Participatory Systems: A people powered model of justice work
• Food Justice is Immigration Justice: Language, migration, and food insecurity (*Spanish/English)
• Food Justice is Mutual-Aid: An alternative to the charitable model
• Prison Food Justice is Food Justice: Mass incarceration and nutrition in America's prisons

2:30-4:30pm EST/11:30am-1:30pm PST

• Food Justice is Housing Justice: The Cancel Rent Movement
• Food Justice is Land Justice: Sustainable land ownership for Black and Indigenous farmers
• Food Justice is Partnership Building: Food, health, and the economy in Central Oregon
• Food Justice is Youth Empowerment

5-7pm EST/2-4pm PST

• Conscious Volunteerism Brings Food Justice: The role of volunteerism in hunger solutions
• Food Justice is Food Policy: MLK's legacy and the impacts of COVID on community, state, and national food policy
• Food Justice is Human Rights: No one should go to bed hungry 
• Food Justice is Spirituality: A conversation with faith leaders on food insecurity

To learn more and register to attend a workshop, please visit http://vhub.at/MLKServeAThon.

No experience required for the volunteers interested in this opportunity. To learn more and register to attend a workshop, please visit http://vhub.at/MLKServeAThon.