The WNY Peace Center is honored to have shero Leah Penniman, educator, farmer, author and food justice activist, keynote at its 55th Annual Dinner on November 11 from 5-9pm at UB’s Haye’s Hall-Main St. campus. The theme is “Planting Seeds of Justice, Harvesting Peace.”
Leah is the co-founder of the BIPOC farming initiative and community, Soul Fire Farm, which has been a great leap forward for soil health, equitable land use, food sovereignty, and so many aspects of justice: racial, economic, environmental, and more. Her book(s), Farming While Black, will be on hand for purchase.
Leah’s contributions are deeply appreciated here in Buffalo. WNY Peace Center Executive Director Deidra EmElis a Black urban farmer herself. The WNY Peace Center is grateful that UB Food Systems Planning & Healthy Communities Lab is cosponsoring this significant event on such a timely and vital topic.
At the dinner, the WNY Peace Center will humbly offer the Phoenix Award to families of victors and to survivors of the 5/14 massacre. Garnell Whitefield will receive the award on behalf of the victims’ thirteen families and survivors (who’ll each get their own copy) as well as those who self-identify as survivors of the horrific attack.
The Emerging Leader Award will go to Yanenowi Logan, a Seneca Deer Clan youth studying Environmental and Sustainability at Cornell University. The Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Dr. Charley Bowman, activist extraordinaire, a former Director of the Peace Center (2011-13).
This special event will be catered by Sunshine Vegan Eats.
This event is the WNY Peace Center’s main fundraiser. Your contribution will help continue the organization, originally Buffalo chapter of Rev. Dr. King’s Clergy & Laity Concerned.
The Challenger Community News, November 4th, 2022
