Podcast Episode 172: Food Insecurity & Food Injustice: Stigma & Solutions – Clancy Harrison

Food Dignity, Food Insecurity & Food Injustice

Clancy Harrison, MS, RDN, FAND

As a registered dietitian, TEDx speaker, international speaker, and author, Clancy Harrison challenges the way food insecurity is approached in the US. Her mission to demolish the stigma around healthy food access places her on the cutting edge of advocacy.

Clancy is the founder of the Food Dignity® Project, a strategic program for leaders who want to shift how they approach nutrition outreach by making healthy food access a priority. She transforms the lives of thousands of people through her work with corporations, non-profit organizations, and universities.

Currently, Clancy is an advisory board member for the Pennsylvania American Academy of Pediatrics Food Insecurity EPIC program, Ambassador of the National Dairy Council, and the President of the Al Beech West Side Food Pantry.

If you want to help someone, really help someone, you have to ask the right questions. You have to be willing to poke holes in your own assumptions and misconceptions.”

Clancy believes everyone has the right to healthy food at all times. On the Food Dignity® Podcast, she shares stories behind hunger in America in order to challenge the judgment and shift the culture surrounding food access.

We can help someone with food insecurity but only if we truly understand their specific barriers to food access.”

Tune in to this episode to learn about:

• Clancy’s personal story of how she woke up to her own food elitism as a registered dietitian
• Melissa’s personal story about being on food stamps as a young child
• the enlightening definitions of “hunger” and “food insecurity”
• the different faces of food insecurity – even in your own community
• how food is viewed differently depending on a person’s level of food security/insecurity
• what is food injustice
• how stigma and shame play a powerful role and how to challenge and change this
• why and how language matters
• how using positive curiosity helps you learn more about opinions you disagree with and break down misconceptions within the realm of food insecurity
• what the Food Dignity® Project is and how you can make a difference in your community or organization

I approach food and nutrition differently now – I seek to understand before seeking to be understood. I might be an expert in the field of dietetics but I will never be an expert in someone else’s life.”

Resources:

Clancy’s websites: www.ClancyHarrison.com | www.fooddignityproject.com

Clancy’s TEDx Talk

Get Clancy’s Food Barrier Question Bank

Clancy’s Food Dignity® Podcast interview with Dr. Ruby Payne

Related Episodes/Posts:

Medical Humanities: Pandemics, Food Shaming & Social Science – Podcast Episode #166 with Dr. Kari Nixon

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Music by Dave Birk

Produced by JAG in Detroit Podcasts

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