Ending Hunger Doesn't Start with Feeding | Shantell Bingham | TEDxCharlottesville

Shantell Bingham discusses the importance of food justice, the prevalence of hunger in our own communities, and how to work in resolving it. As the Program Director of the Charlottesville Food Justice Network, Bingham works to cultivate equitable strategies from the ground-up in local and regional food systems on the East Coast. As the Program Director of the Charlottesville Food Justice Network and a member of the Chesapeake Foodshed Network’s Community Ownership, Empowerment and Prosperity Action Team, Shantell Bingham works to cultivate equitable strategies from the ground-up in local and regional food systems on the East Coast. In 2015, she was awarded the Dalai Lama Fellowship to study compassionate, ethical leadership and social entrepreneurship. During the fellowship she co-founded Growing for Change as a graduate student at UVA. She is a 2018 Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award nominee and a 2019 Charlottesville top 10 under 40 recipient. She currently chairs the Charlottesville Human Rights Commission and is working alongside commissioners to reimagine institutional change and community organizing from the inside-out. Shantell holds a B.A. in Global Development Studies and MPH from the University of Virginia. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx