Tue, Mar 30
|Zoom
Sharman Apt Russell, Within Our Grasp: Childhood Malnutrition Worldwide and the Revolution Taking Place to End It
From the much-admired writer of luminous prose and humane heart, winner of the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished natural history writing. An important, hopeful book that looks at the urgent problem of childhood malnutrition worldwide and the revolutionary progress being made to end it.
Date, Time & Location
Mar 30, 2021, 6:00 PM MDT
Zoom
About the Event
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Hunger is a growing crisis in Northern New Mexico. With the long-lasting, ripple effects of COVID-19, it is projected that one of every five people and one of every three children will be affected by food insecurity in our state in 2020.-- The Food Depot, Santa Fe serving Northern New Mexico communities.
Sharman will begin by talking about hunger in the United States, as well as the work of New Mexico's Roadrunner Food Bank. She first wrote about Roadrunner in her Hunger: An Unnatural History (Basic Books, 2005) and remembers well that long-ago visit to its warehouse. She went on to start a backpack program for schoolchildren in Silver City—sending home nutritious snacks for the weekend--and to serve on…