Advocacy

Dreaming Out Loud uses the food system as a lens, a platform, and a mechanism for realizing a broader vision of equity and racial justice. We realize that genuine systems-change involves using community organizing and legislation as tools for sovereignty and community-based economic development.

Since 2017 and continuing through 2023, the DOL Executive Director, Chris Bradshaw, has served on the DC Food Policy Council, which allows DOL to remain a vocal participant in the legislative process and serve as a conduit for advocacy efforts by helping to draft, propose, and comment on legislation that directly benefits our neighborhoods.

BUILDING RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE THROUGH A HEALTHY, EQUITABLE FOOD SYSTEM …

Advocacy – the lifeblood of any social justice movement. Since 2017, Dreaming Out Loud has ensured that the organization’s food and economic justice work has been undergird by remaining a vocal participant in the legislative process and serving as a conduit for advocacy efforts across the DC region. Through our leadership’s representation on the DC Food Policy Council, we are able to channel advocacy efforts by helping to draft, propose, and comment on legislation that directly affects our neighborhoods

As a Black-led organization, we operate within this complex food system at the grassroots level, intentionally engaging our stakeholders through outreach programs that solicit feedback for programs and policy, through our regular community meetings that inform residents of policies under consideration, and through our engagement with local and regional governments.

Contact us at info@dreamingoutloud.org to explore how you can help in our advocacy efforts.

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FOOD POLICY COUNCIL ADVOCACY