Attorney and activist Saru Jayaraman, co-founder and president of One Fair Wage, will present at the 2022 University of Rhode Island Honors Colloquium Tuesday, Oct. 25, on “Labor and the Food System.” Jayaraman is director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S., Jayaraman worked with displaced World Trade Center workers to co-found the Restaurant Opportunities Center, which grew into a national movement of restaurant workers, employers, and consumers. .
Historian Diana Garvin, who specializes in food and politics, will present at the 2022 University of Rhode Island Honors Colloquium Tuesday, Oct. 18, on “Kitchen Rebellion: Food under Italian Fascism and Everyday Resistance.” Garvin is an assistant professor of Italian at the University of Oregon. With a focus on Mediterranean studies, she uses food to explain the relationships between Italian history and the world. .