Human Rights Workshop: "The Movement for Food Sovereignty in Maine"

Speakers:

Denisse Córdova Montes is a Practitioner in Residence in the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Miami School of Law. From 2012 to 2018, Córdova Montes was based in Germany, where she coordinated the Gender and Women’s Rights Program at FIAN International, an international human rights organization that promotes and defends the right to food. At FIAN, she oversaw human rights fact-finding and advocacy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America around rural, peasant, and Indigenous women’s rights. She also supported social movements’ lobbying with the United Nations in Geneva, New York, and Rome in cases concerning access to land, water, adequate nutrition, and decent working conditions as well as in global standard setting processes, particularly concerning rural women's right to food.

Senator Craig Hickman is Democratic politician from Maine currently representing Maine Senate District 14.  He is a Harvard graduate and a local business owner, running a successful organic farm and bed and breakfast with his husband. He served in the Maine House of Representatives for eight years, sponsoring and fighting for measures that promote food sovereignty, protect individual rights and civil liberties, combat poverty and hunger, and support rural economic development. He previously served as House Chair of the Legislature’s Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry and as a member of the Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs. 

Heather Retberg, Activist and Farmer, Quill's End Farm

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