At The Harvard Law Forum: Karen Washington on Urban Farming and Food Justice

At The Harvard Law Forum: Karen Washington on Urban Farming and Food Justice

Posted by Pete Davis on March 3, 2018 in Forum

Karen Washington is a New York City community activist, community gardener and board member of the New York Botanical Gardens.

She has worked with Bronx neighborhoods to turn empty lots into community gardens, helped launched a City Farms Market, is a member of the La Familia Verde Garden Coalition, is a Just Food board member, is a board member and former president of the New York City Community Garden Coalition and is the co-founded Black Urban Growers (BUGS). She is also the co-creator of Rise & Root Farm, a cooperatively run farm in the black dirt region of Orange County, New York.

On February 22, 2018, she came to Harvard Law School to share her insights and experience on what lawyers can do to promote urban farming and food justice.