Jones said in her master’s program, she began to fully understand the nutritional problems of the world she grew up in were rooted in systemic causes.
student in her family, and we are glad to be able to support her.” With her project, she aims to uncover racialized hypocrisies embedded within both the local and global food system, which is now as relevant as ever. Jones’ story and how her life history has inspired her to pursue food system and sovereignty studies. In recognizing Jones as a grant recipient, VERBI noted, “We were greatly impacted by Mrs. They are also legacy cities, meaning they lost a significant amount of population and economic viability after the decline of manufacturing in the region. Jones will explore the urban agricultural experience and Black foodways in Toledo and Dayton, two Ohio cities that saw a large influx of African Americans during the Great Migration. Sujata Shetty, professors in the UToledo Department of Geography and Planning.
Her research project is titled “Empowerment Through Consumption: Land Banks, Land Ownership and Black Food Geographies.” Her co-advisors are Dr.
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candidate in the UToledo Spatially Integrated Social Science Doctoral Program in the College of Arts and Letters, is one of four winners of a 2020 MAXQDA Research for Change Grant from VERBI Software and the Global Nature Fund. A graduate student at The University of Toledo was awarded a competitive grant to look at land use and barriers to urban agriculture in Toledo and Dayton and how it impacts African-American communities.īrittany D.