Marla Larrave, Political Education Director at HEAL Food Alliance, joins us to talk about HEAL’s School of Political Leadership (SoPL) and how to turn your big dreams into tangible plans for actionable change. Then we hear from Congressional guests Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-01) and Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (NE-01). Our episode closes with a conversation between Young Farmers Grassroots Manager Faith Shaeffer and Land Campaign Director Holly Rippon-Butler about how the Coalition’s Land Campaign is built around the stories of young farmers across the country and how your voices can continue to influence the policies we advocate for on the Hill. Edited by Hannah Beal.
Marla Larrave, Political Education Director at HEAL Food Alliance, joins us to talk about HEAL’s School of Political Leadership (SoPL) and how to turn your big dreams into tangible plans for actionable change. Then we hear from Congressional guests Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-01) and Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (NE-01). Our episode closes with a conversation between Young Farmers Grassroots Manager Faith Shaeffer and Land Campaign Director Holly Rippon-Butler about how the Coalition’s Land Campaign is built around the stories of young farmers across the country and how your voices can continue to influence the policies we advocate for on the Hill.
Edited by Hannah Beal.
About Marla:
Marla heads up HEAL’s School of Political Leadership (SoPL) and works alongside members to build political education and alignment for a just food and farm system. Having grown up in Los Angeles with deep farming roots in Guatemala, her previous experience includes progressing community-led policy and advocacy initiatives with people of color, migrants and Indigenous communities both in the U.S. and abroad. Marla holds an M.A. in International Development from American University and a B.A. in Global Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is based in Washington, D.C.
To learn more about the HEAL Food Alliance, visit https://healfoodalliance.org/
To learn about the School of Political Leadership at HEAL, visit https://healfoodalliance.org/heal-school-of-political-leadership/