BSFO Juneteenth events continue with Food Justice and Healing Panel
June 16, 2026 •
The theme for this year’s UCOP Black Staff and Faculty Organization (BSFO) Juneteenth celebrations is “From Soil to Soul — Reclaiming Our Roots.”
The event takes place on Zoom, and colleagues at all UCOP locations are encouraged to attend!
Food Justice and Healing Panel
June 23, 12 – 1 p.m. (PT)
Zoom link for food justice event (no pre-registration needed)
Drs. Charisma Acey, Hanna Garth and Naya Jones will participate in BSFO’s Food Justice & Healing Panel on June 23.
Join BSFO for a Food Justice & Healing Panel featuring three UC-connected scholars whose work explores food, community, health and equity:
- Charisma Acey, Ph.D., Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, and Arcus Chair in Social Justice and the Built Environment, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley
- Hanna Garth, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University; former recipient of the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
- Naya Jones, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology and Core Faculty, Global and Community Health Program, UC Santa Cruz
These interdisciplinary experts will share how their research interests and teaching strategies connect with questions of food justice, community well-being and healing. Don’t miss this timely conversation about equity, belonging and collective care.
Previous events
Last Tuesday, members and UCOP colleagues kicked off celebrations with a special group dance class in Oakland featuring Wendy Williams, the energy and inspiration behind Movin’ n Groovin’ with Auntie Wendy. Check out the video below!
On June 16, BSFO hosted a special author event featuring Leta McCollough Seletzky, author of “The Kneeling Man: My Father’s Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.” The event offered UCOP colleagues an opportunity to hear from an author whose work brings together personal narrative and historical inquiry to examine memory, justice and one family’s connection to a defining chapter in American history. Selezky’s story was featured in the April 2018 issue of “O, The Oprah Magazine.” Read an excerpt here.
For questions, contact bsfo-ucop@ucop.edu.
Tags: author event, BSFO, Juneteenth
