Alumni Café - The Power of Food: Threats and Opportunities for Sustainability and Human Health
Food shapes our lives in more ways than we often realize.
It influences not only our health, but also our environment, communities, and daily choices. Join us for a timely and engaging virtual lecture with Professor Jennifer Sumner as we explore the power of food and what it means for sustainability and human health today.
This special online event will examine the threats posed by industrial food production and ultra processed food, while also highlighting the opportunities emerging through sustainable food systems and healthier approaches to eating.
Professor Sumner will explore how food is connected to power across cultural, political, economic, social, and environmental dimensions, and how that power can be harnessed to support healthy and sustainable diets for everyone.
Why Attend?
- Learn how food systems affect both planetary and human health
- Gain insight into one of today’s most urgent sustainability conversations
- Hear from a leading scholar in food studies and adult education
Register today and join us for an important conversation about food, sustainability, and the future of human health.
Jennifer Sumner
Jennifer Sumner is a Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Adult Education and Community Development Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her research interests include sustainable food systems, food and the social economy and critical pedagogy. She is the editor of Learning, Food and Sustainability: Sites of Resistance and Change (2016, Palgrave Macmillan) and co-editor of Critical Perspectives in Food Studies (2022, Oxford University Press) and Teaching Food Studies (forthcoming 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.).