Delta Project Food Initiative Team Leader Ona Balkus’s blog post on the Clinical and Pro Bono Office Blog
Student Voices: From Farm to School in Mississippi Posted on February 13, 2012 Today’s dispatch comes from Ona Balkus, a second-year joint degree student at Harvard Law School and Harvard School of Public Health. Ona spent her winter term working with the Mississippi Food Policy Council as part of the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic. She is also a member of the student practice organization the Mississippi Delta Projectand is a student fellow for the Law and Social Change Program of Study. She will be participating in the Food Law and...
read moreRecommendations for Farm-to-School Bill Accepted!
Over the course of the fall semester, the Delta Project’s Food Policy team developed legislative recommendations for a statewide farm-to-school bill in Mississippi. After researching farm-to-school initiatives around the country and considering how such initiatives could best be implemented in Mississippi, the Food Policy team compiled their final report, which included recommendations such as the creation of a state farm-to-school coordinator position and the enactment of an official Mississippi Farm-to-School Week. The Food Policy team...
read moreWEDNESDAY – 11/30 – HARVARD-WIDE MISSISSIPPI DELTA CELEBRATION
THIRD ANNUAL HARVARD-WIDE DELTA CELEBRATION Wednesday, November 30, 2011 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Pound Hall, Ropes-Gray Assembly Room, Harvard Law School Please join the Harvard Law School Mississippi Delta Project to learn about ways that Harvard students and faculty are engaged in the Delta, to meet members of the Harvard community who are interested in the Delta region, and to celebrate the wonderful work that is being done to improve living conditions in this part of the United States! The event is open to anyone from the Harvard...
read more10/3: Larry Soler – Partnering with Industry to Help Solve the Childhood Obesity Crisis
Monday, October 3rd 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Pound 101, Harvard Law School The Harvard Food Law Society, Child and Youth Advocates, and the Mississippi Delta Project are cosponsoring a presentation by Larry Soler, head of The Partnership for a Healthier America. PHA is an organization devoted to working with the private sector to ensure the health of our nation’s youth by solving the childhood obesity crisis. Just over a year old and created in conjunction with – but independent from – Let’s Move!, PHA is a nonpartisan,...
read moreMississippi Policy Partners – Now Accepting Applications!
The HLS Mississippi Delta Project’s Mississippi Policy Partners will engage Harvard students (HLS and HKS) to work with students from Mississippi’s Tougaloo College (a Jackson-based HBCU) and Mississippi legislators in order to prepare them for the start of the 2012 legislative session. The project will involve mandatory travel to Mississippi (expenses paid) for a long weekend in November (dates TBD) in order to present an interdisciplinary training on policymaking and the legislative process to the Tougaloo College students and meet...
read moreFall 2011 Info Session – Tuesday, 9/27 in Griswold 110
Please join us for the Mississippi Delta Project’s fall informational session, which will be held on Tuesday, September 27th in Griswold 110. Students will have the opportunity to learn more about the exciting initiatives we are undertaking this semester, including projects in food policy, financial services, children’s health, and mental health. Lunch will be provided.
read moreHLS Delta Project students present to Memphis food stakeholders in March 2011
In March 2011, three HLS Delta Project students spent a week in Memphis, working with community members to recommend changes to the Memphis Food Code. These students were part of a team of over 20 students that worked throughout the 2010-2011 year to recommend a comprehensive overhaul of the Code. A brief video of the students presenting to the community can be seen here: Memphis Food Code The final report can be downloaded...
read moreDelta Project – Official HLS Student Organization!
It’s official! The HLS Mississippi Delta Project is a student organization of HLS. In the last two years that we’ve been in existence, we had been operating as an unofficial organization, through an association with the Clinical and Pro Bono Office at HLS. Last week, however, we filed our Constitution and organizational papers with the Dean of Students Office and are now approved as our own student organization! We will, of course, continue our association with the Clinical and Pro Bono Office, as they provide crucial...
read moreHarvard Wide Delta Celebration – Success!
Thank you so much to those of you who joined us last week at the Second Annual Harvard Mississippi Delta Celebration! It event was a huge success, giving people time to mingle, network and learn about the wide range of work being done through Harvard for the Delta. We were thrilled to have so many people there and to hear from such a diverse range of students and faculty about the wonderful work they are doing! For those of you who could not join us, the panel consisted of individuals from Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard College,...
read moreHLS Delta Project’s Fall 2010 Newsletter
The Delta Project has just come out with its second bi-annual newsletter. This newsletter includes updates and information about student projects conducted during the spring 2010 semester. In this newsletter, we have added information about projects operating in the Delta sponsored by other Harvard schools in addition to the Law School. We have added contact information for those projects if our supporters are interested in learning more about those projects. Please note that this edition of the newsletter includes information from projects...
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