Tonight's Guest: Rita Stevens

Rita Stevens (Inspiring Food Movement Learner) is a college sophomore at Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA.

An eastern Massachusetts native, Rita helped lead high school service learning about food, agriculture and hunger. At Evergreen she takes multidisciplinary courses on ecology and the food system and gets to critically examine how agriculture is practiced in Washington. She has nutritional science background to understand the implications of Farm Bill and SNAP policy, and knows how much lies behind food labels and food production, and it makes her feel communicating what's invisible to most people is extremely urgent. She also cooks avidly and learns and teaches by doing; she describes accompanying a goose hunt and processing the meat, and teaching her classmates shellfishing.