#196: Food, Community & One Love

Edible Activist Podcast by Melissa L. Jones

Jun 18, 202600:34:31Arts

Asmeret Berhe-Lumax turned a single community fridge in Brooklyn into one of the most recognized food access movements in the country and she did it by centering three things above all else: respect, dignity, and health....

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