Where: Yale Art Gallery, Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Lecture Hall, 1111 Chapel Street
Alice Waters is a chef, author, and food activist, and the founder and owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, California. She has been a champion of local, sustainable agriculture for over four decades. In 1995, she founded the Edible Schoolyard Project, which advocates for a free school lunch for all children and a sustainable food curriculum in every public school. She conceived and helped create the Yale Sustainable Food Project, in 2003, and the Rome Sustainable Food Project at the American Academy in Rome, in 2007. In 2015 was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama, proving that eating is a political act, and that the table is a powerful means to social justice and positive change.