'Divided Baltimore' Class Welcomes Guest Speaker Leo Horrigan, Sustainable Agriculture Expert, Nov. 28
November 18, 2016
Contact: Public Affairs
Phone: 410.837.5739
The University of Baltimore's class, "Divided Baltimore: How Did We Get Here? Where Do We Go?," will welcome Leo Horrigan, an expert on sustainable agriculture, during its Monday, Nov. 28 session. Horrigan will give a presentation on food and sustainability followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience. The session is open to the greater community, but seating is limited and only students formally enrolled in the course are guaranteed a seat. It will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Town Hal in the H. Mebane Turner Learning Commons, 1415 Maryland Ave.
Horrigan is food system correspondent for the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, which examines ways to improve the sustainability of food systems by making them more ecologically sound, socially just, and healthy. The center engages in research, education and community outreach to further its goals.
Horrigan has produced two short documentary films for CLF—Out to Pasture (2010), which examines sustainable, small-scale methods of producing meat, milk and eggs, and Food Frontiers (2016), which looks at six projects from around the United States that demonstrate that better access to healthy food can have a positive effect on underserved populations. Horrigan also partnered with filmmaker and cinematographer Allen Moore to create an independent film called Out of Our Heads, a documentary that chronicles a six-day retreat in New England where a group of men explore their deepest emotions as part of a supportive male community.
Horrigan is one of several guest speakers scheduled for this semester's "Divided Baltimore" class, which is being taught by Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences lecturer Ron Kipling Williams, M.F.A. '16. Now in its third semester, the interdisciplinary course was launched by the University last fall as a way to build on an historical understanding of how Baltimore became segregated, what that means for people who live on either side of the divide, why it is in everyone’s self-interest to correct the problem, and how we might do so.
Learn more about the "Divided Baltimore" course.
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