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Important Updates from the Wallace Center
As of January 2021, the Wallace Center is transitioning to a co-directorship model under the shared leadership of Susan Lightfoot Schempf and Pete Huff. We are also excited to announce a national search for a Development and Communications Manager (details within). Read More

The Power of Community-based Food Systems
This new multimedia storytelling project is an exploration into how communities across the Northwest are using community-based food systems to catalyze resistance and resilience, self-determination and sovereignty, connection and liberation. Read More

Announcing the Midwest Grazing Exchange
Accessing land to graze, or finding livestock farmers to partner with, can be a barrier to expanding integrated crop-livestock systems. A new website by the Midwest Perennial Forage Working Group – a network of grazing educators in the Upper Midwest that includes the Wallace Center's Pasture Project – seeks to address this challenge. Read More

Collaborating for Native Communities
By the time A-dae Briones joined a late March conference call with national funders and partners about the impact of COVID-19 on food supply chains in the U.S., she had already spent days fielding appeals for food and water from Native American communities across the Southwest. Read More

Natilee McGruder – Reflections on Time with the Wallace Center
Natilee McGruder's year with the Wallace Center was short but impactful! Given her many gifts, talents, and passions, Natilee was quickly pulled into a lot of important facets of Wallace work, in addition to her leading our internal and external communications.   Read More

John Fisk – Reflections and Legacy at the Wallace Center
After 15 years in leadership at the Wallace Center at Winrock International, our dear friend and esteemed colleague John Fisk has moved on to a new chapter. Read more about his legacy here. Read More

Important Organizational Updates from the Wallace Center
I hope this letter finds you and your loved ones healthy and doing well, during what has been a difficult summer for many. As we enter the second part of 2020, we’d like to share some important organizational updates with all of you. Read More

New Webinar – Food Systems Mapping 101: Tools and Skills
Carolyn Talmadge from Tufts University and Cynthia Caul from Chatham University join Wallace Center staff to share their expertise and introduce you to some tools to help create useful and effective food systems maps. Read More

Wallace Center Condemns Police Brutality
The Wallace Center unequivocally denounces and condemns the brutal murder of George Floyd by several of the members of the Minneapolis Police Department and the trauma it has continuously inflicted on the city’s Black community. Read More

New Webinar – COVID-19 and Small and Mid-Sized Meat Processors
Jessica Roosa from This Old Farm, Rebecca Thistlethwaite from Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network, and Kelly Nuckolls from National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition explore the impact that COVID-19 is having on small and medium sized meat processors, how they're adapting to these challenges, and the changes underway to alleviate pressure and ensure lasting change. Read More