Target Audience

This course is is designed to support folks who work in food justice and food access spaces, including but not limited to:

  • Leadership staff at non-profit organizations and health departments focused on equity, racial justice, food access

  • Public Health Nutrition Professionals

  • Foundations & Grantmakers who fund food justice initiatives

Course Objectives

By the end of the course you will be able to...

  • ENGAGE

    In discussions around how the food justice movement, rooted in Black liberation, has evolved to promote supremacist thinking and colonialist ideology.

  • DESCRIBE

    How bodies and food can be used to uphold systems of oppression.

  • IDENTIFY

    At least two ways to address weight bias and anti-fatness when working towards inclusive food justice.

Course Curriculum Overview

    1. Title

    2. Description & Objectives

    3. About Me, My Perspective, and Land Connection

    4. Community Introduction

    5. Positionality, Housekeeping & Course Norms

    6. Somatic Practice: The Five Anchors

    7. Supplemental Resource: Somatic Exercises

    1. ARE we What we Eat?

    2. Activity: Reflect and Share

    3. "Animals feed. Man eats. (But) Only the man of intellect knows how to eat"

    4. Food is the Backbone of Culture

    5. Colonization & Racialized Food Hierarchies

    6. Chapter 1 Key Takeways

    1. Hierarchized Binaries inform how we are expected to behave and move through society

    2. Social Identities and their Proximity to Power

    3. Activity Instructions

    4. Activity: Exploring Social Identities, Dominant Power Systems, & Food, Health Beliefs

    5. Chapter 2 Key Takeaways

    1. Defining Food Justice and Food Sovereignty

    2. Activity: Identifying Examples of Food INjustice & Working towards Justice

    3. The Four Pillars of Food Justice

    4. Activity: Reflect and Respond

    5. Food Justice: A Civil Rights Timeline

    6. Food Justice: Fat Pioneers

    7. Anti-Blackness, Anti-fatness and the 'Health Deficit'

    8. Chapter 3 Key Takeaways

    1. Food Insecurity and it's connection to Disordered Eating and Eating Disorders

    2. Food Insecurity Rebranded: Nutrition Security & the Simplification of Food Access

    3. History Revisited: The Classist and Ableist Nature of the Discourse around "Ultraprocessed Foods"

    4. Reflect & Respond: UPFs

    5. Case Study: #Lunchablesgate

    6. Reflect & Respond: #LunchablesGate

    7. Chapter 4 Key Takeways

    1. Course Summary

    2. Incorporating Sustainability & Accountability

    3. Activity: Action Planning

About this course

  • 45 lessons

What's Included?

This course is designed using evidence-based pedagogy and andragogy to facilitate self-paced adult learning. You get the following when you enroll:

  • 1.5 CEUs (Must attend live facilitated session or watch recordings)

  • Self Paced Slides with Audio Recordings

  • Supplemental Resources & Activities

  • A virtual community message board where you can ask questions, share resources, and talk to other enrolled students

  • BONUS CONTENT including recorded interviews with subject matter experts, recommended readings, videos, podcasts, resources, and more!

  • 120 day access to all course materials

About our Tiered Pricing Model

Embody Lib prioritizes making our courses financially accessible to higher-weight, queer, Black, and Indigenous people of marginalized genders. While there will be a limited number of scholarships offered to those with the greatest financial need, course are priced according to a Tiered Pricing Model. (See below)

Pricing options

Embody Lib prioritizes making our courses accessible to those with systemically marginalized identities and are in financial need. Embody Lib trusts that those who enroll move with integrity and will select the tier that applies best to them.

Meet the Instructor

Patrilie Hernandez

Patrilie Hernandez (they/she) has nearly 15 years of professional experience which has shaped their understanding of how the pursuit of "health" seamlessly intersects with the built environment, equity, and social justice. After initially working in the restaurant industry in both back and front of the house for over five years, they redirected their love for food to nutrition education, anti-hunger advocacy, and policymaking around food access and food justice. Since then, Patrilie’s interest in nutrition has broadened to working to address the other social determinants of health that influence individual and community well-being. Patrilie combines her academic background in culinary arts, anthropology, nonprofit management, and nutrition and works as a consultant, partnering with medical, healthcare, and education providers to integrate weight-inclusive, interdisciplinary, and multi-dimensional strategies that improve the health of historically marginalized populations.