We're inspired by amazing food activists like Dara Cooper, who was an honoree at MomsRising's Food Power event in NYC last year. 

Dara is an activist, organizer and currently the director of the NYC Food and Fitness Partnership at Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. The Partnership works to address food and health access issues in Brooklyn and is focused on a new farmers market featuring regional Black farmers at Restoration, the first community development corporation in the country in addition to a piloted farm to Headstart program rolled out in Brooklyn. She serves on the advisory board of Black Oaks Center for Sustainable Renewable Living, a member of Black Farmers Urban Gardeners (BUGS), a food justice blogger for BKreader.com and is the contributing editor for the Environment, Sustainability and Food Justice section of the Praxis Center, an online activist academic journal at Kalamazoo College. She has worked on or advised healthy food access work all over the country and is deeply committed to strengthening community reclamation of our food system.

Thanks for all you do, Dara!