No Kid Hungry's own Nayshma Jones puts listening to feedback
from kids at the forefront of her work to end childhood hunger. |
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Dear
John,
This Black History Month, we're spotlighting Nayshma Jones, one
of our very own program managers for No Kid Hungry Florida.
She discusses Black joy, gratitude, and how
her Blackness and cultural identity have made her work toward ending
childhood hunger come full circle.
Jones tells us how her experience, first as a
student struggling to find culturally familiar foods in school, and
then as a teacher witnessing her own students struggling with food
insecurity, both inform how she aids No Kid Hungry. This includes
closing nutritional gaps for students by employing her
"knowledge of culture, history, health equity, and community
engagement."
On the community created through Creole and
Black Caribbean-American foods, Jones says, "although separated,
we've managed to subconsciously remain united. This is evidenced
in the familiarity of our traditions, languages, mannerisms and
arguably most prevalent in our foods."
Her lack of access to such community and
culturally familiar foods as a student within the American public
school system led her to be as passionate as she is today about
working to ensure that students' voices and food preferences are
heard. She doesn't just work to ensure that no kid goes hungry
- she works to ensure that no kid feels culturally isolated in
regard to food.
Her Blackness and the intersection of her
various cultural identities have given her this voice: "the
intersections of Blackness continue to expand calling for
organizations, industries, and institutions to take pause, to fully
study and appreciate the true diversity of Blackness."
Read Nayshma's Story
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