Edible Placemaking | Kathryn Lennon | TEDxUAlberta

Food: it connects us with one another, forges a sense of belonging, and is a canvas for individual expression. In this heartfelt talk, Kathryn Lennon shares intimate poems on her relationship with food spanning key moments in her journey as an eater. Kathryn Lennon works as a planner with the City of Edmonton's CITYlab team, on fresh: Edmonton's Food and Urban Agriculture Strategy. She also works with the Edmonton Food Council. She holds a Masters of Arts in Planning from UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning, where her work focused on youth-driven, community-based public space activation in Vancouver’s Chinatown. She also holds a Bachelors of Environment and Resource Studies from the University of Waterloo where she focused on race and multiculturalism in relation to alternative food movements. Kathryn loves sampling street foods of the world and exploring Edmonton's food gems. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx