An Evening with Sustainability Experts Dr. Marty Matlock and Dr. Jared Phillips

An Evening with Sustainability Experts Dr. Marty Matlock and Dr. Jared Phillips
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Razorback Food Recovery invites you to join our team at the first ever RFR Virtual Sustainability Forum Tuesday, Nov. 3, from 6 to 7 p.m.. This will be an hour of conversation with Dr. Marty Matlock and Dr. Jared Phillips as we explore the topic of sustainability as it relates to college campuses and environmental justice. Participation will earn you one hour of virtual service. Register through GivePulse! 

Meet the Panel: 

Dr. Marty Matlock is the executive director of the University of Arkansas Resiliency Center and professor of Ecological Engineering in the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department. His focus is on the interface of food, water and community systems. He works with ecologists, engineers, architects, social and political scientists, agricultural scientists, economists and business leaders to create new understanding and framing of vexing human challenges. 

Dr. Jared Phillips and his wife have spent the last eight years working in community development, environmental issues and agriculture in a variety of locales, including the Tibetan areas of Western China, rural communities in Guatemala and Pacific Island immigrant communities in the Ozarks. Among his other projects, Phillips is finishing a history of the back-to-the-land movement in the Arkansas Ozarks during the 1970s. His teaching interests include human rights, indigenous rights and food security. 

For more information or questions about the forum or about Razorback Food Recovery, you can email recovery@uark.edu.

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