Join the Hudson Valley Food System Coalition Food Security Interest Group on Zoom for a presentation and discussion with Nevin Cohen on the creation of a prototype food environment equity dashboard for New York City (FEED-NYC). The aim is to create a tool to advance "the understanding of the impacts of smart technologies in addressing food system inequality, by aggregating, organizing, analyzing, and visualizing food systems equity data; testing novel methods of disaggregating, combining, and mapping data to measure food insecurity vulnerabilities; developing use cases that illustrate the potential social and political effects of an equity-focused data dashboard; and evaluating the process of co-producing FEED-NYC and anticipated uses of the dashboard by municipal officials, service providers, and community stakeholders." source

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Nevin Cohen is an Associate Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, and is Research Director of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute. His research explores the policies, governance systems, practices, and infrastructure to support socially just, healthy, ecologically resilient, and economically viable urban and regional food systems. Current projects include a five-country study of the food, water, and energy nexus of urban agriculture and research on changing mobility patterns and food retail access during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Cohen is the co-author of Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City(University of GA Press) that examines the potential of urban farms and gardens to address racial, gender, and class oppression. He has a PhD in Urban Planning and Policy Development from Rutgers University, a Masters in City and Regional Planning from Berkeley, and a BA from Cornell.