In fall 2022, Dr. Megan Kendrick and students in the urban studies course Food and the City partnered with Woodbury’s Community Outreach Coordinator Alisa Sehgal to support campus greening and food security projects. Food and the City is a hybrid course (class discussions are held online and community work in-person) that looks at the way food production, distribution, and consumption impact environmental concerns, public health, and policy. As part of the class, students are provided with opportunities to work directly with food abatement programs. While in the past students have volunteered with organizations like Burrito Project, Food Forward, and MEND, Sehgal’s campus sustainability projects provided the perfect opportunity to focus those efforts right here at Woodbury.
In addition to serving as the Community Outreach Coordinator for Woodbury’s new Sustainability Programs majors, Sehgal also works with the Healthy and Sustainable Campus Committee. As part of that work, she established an edible garden and is working to distribute the produce to Woodbury students. To support these efforts, Dr. Kendrick’s students organized themselves into four teams. One team built a new planter box and made several trips to the L.A. City Sanitation site at Lopez Canyon to haul soil back to campus.
In addition to their campus work, the class also volunteered together at the L.A. Regional Food Bank, which Dr. Kendrick called “a very powerful experience.”
Last Updated on February 16, 2023.