Priya Fielding-Singh
Priya Fielding-Singh is Director of Policy and Programs at the Global Food Institute at George Washington University and affiliate faculty in GW’s Department of Sociology. A social scientist, she focuses on food and nutrition equity, maternal and child health, and social policy.
Food Workers’ Essential Role Has Not Translated Into Pay or Power
The food economy depends on workers who often lack fair pay, safe conditions, a voice at work and a share in business growth. In a panel on food justice, the speakers present different ways to build worker power and share value, from collective organizing to employee ownership. They do not treat any one model as a substitute for workers’ voice or the power to make institutions respond.
SNAP Purchase Restrictions Are Creating Checkout Confusion, Not Clearer Nutrition
In a Food & Society at the Aspen Institute and Global Food Institute webinar on SNAP purchase restrictions, practitioners argued that the policies are being experienced less as nutrition guidance than as a patchwork of checkout-line denials. Propel’s Justin King, Feeding Texas’s Celia Cole, Restore OKC’s Rachel Newman and NACS’s Margaret Mannion said state-by-state rules are confusing recipients, burdening small retailers and driving substitutions or cash purchases rather than clear evidence of healthier diets. Their practical alternative was to put more weight on access and incentives than prohibition.