Featuring Olivia Rovang
In this episode, Olivia Rovang, talks about the ways experiential education is critical to food systems literacy–understanding this type of literacy as an essential aspect of incentivizing stakeholdership and change within the sustainable food systems movement.
Olivia's Capstone project produced a comprehensive reference guide for individuals, communities, educators—anyone interested in increasing their sustainable food systems literacy through experiential hands-on learning activities focusing on systems thinking methodologies.
Olivia joined the MSFS program at Prescott as an accelerated student, a unique opportunity offered at the college where qualified undergraduate students can simultaneously pursue a graduate degree, Currently she is focused on integrating sustainability and equity into everything she’s involved with and enjoys navigating collaborative spaces with diverse stakeholders.
Featuring Courtney Buzzard
With over a decade of experience in the food sector, Courtney has a passion for food systems, the environment, and social justice. She describes herself as the proud daughter in a long line of farmers on her father’s side and her mother’s– Nicaraguan immigrant to the United States. Courtney uses she/her pronouns and lives in Arizona on the unceeded land of the Hohokam and Tohono O’odham peoples. She aspires, through her work, to create meaningful change by improving cultural food access in low income and immigrant communities and re-establishing the value of cultural foodways in the homes and communities of the Latin American diaspora.
