Ruminate Presents: Questionable Food
Ruminate has launched its new podcast: Questionable Food!
Each week, the Ruminate team joins community food leaders to discuss what topics they wish more folks were talking about. These conversations raise awareness to inequalities and issues with our existing food systems. Episodes are hosted by Ruminate executive director, Kara Kaminski-Killiany. Each guest shares stories of their triumphs, struggles, and frustrations, with a focus on the ethics, equity, and environmental sustainability issues within our food system. As they move from community to community, they help gain a closer look at the breadth of the American food experience.⠀
Check out the trailer today!⠀
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Questionable food is available wherever you get your podcasts. If you want to dig deeper and learn more, the team will also be posting companion blog posts discussing issues further and providing more context.
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What is Ruminate?
Ruminate was founded by individuals looking to build a world where everyone has access to food, for both nourishment and enjoyment that represents their values. It is a nonprofit innovation lab that leverages behavioral science, artistic mediums, and the collective wisdom of the food community to break down complex food system issues and find digestible, evidence-based solutions.
About Kara Kaminski-Killiany
Kara sees repairing the food system as the most fundamental way to impact some of humanity’s greatest woes. The inability to feed our families well breeds anger. Childhood hunger has ramifications throughout entire lives. Externalized costs of certain industry players ravage our environment and in turn, our health. Chemicals are now regularly present in what we eat. What troubles her further is that food is too often politicized and the deep urgency in our need for action can make those who care deeply too forceful in how they try to enact change. Kara looks to turn the tide with her team at Ruminate.
She brings a decade of experience growing innovative programs from concept to scale to her role as Executive Director. She has worked across several continents, in many fields, breaking down and translating complex information into learnings that are in turn used to educate and inspire action. She believes in educating and building programs that keeps in mind how real humans, with all of our illogical quirks, work and learn. An economist and researcher at heart, she believes in the power of evidence based research while never losing sight of the power of human connection and passionate people. On her days off, Kara enjoys engaging with her local food scene through Slow Food West Michigan and indulging in all of the local, humane, sustainable cuisine she can stroll her daughter to, steps of her home in Grand Rapids, MI.
Kara’s mission @ Ruminate, this year, to engage stakeholders outside of the “good food” world into the food change conversation.
