I write about health and healing, exploring everything from food and climate change to art and AI.

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LATEST WRITING

Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

Jubilee Justice grows rice regeneratively while reclaiming the past.

Civil Eats
A Debut Southern Cookbook Challenges Simplified Notions of Black Cuisine

The new cookbook from ‘Top Chef’ alum Ashleigh Shanti features recipes from five micro-regions of the American South.

Civil Eats
For Farmers and Ranchers Grappling With Mental Health, This Fourth-Generation Farmer Offers Help That Works

Michael Rosmann, also a clinical psychologist, drew on 50 years of counseling farmers to write ‘Meditations on Farming.’

Civil Eats
Can Cooking in Community Slow Dementia and Diabetes?

New cooking classes for older people of color could delay the onset of diet-related diseases—and provide a host of other benefits, too.

Civil Eats
'Shelf Life’ Peeks Into the Nooks and Crannies of the Cheesemaker’s World

Robyn Metcalfe, the producer of a new, award-winning documentary, explores economics, biology, and mortality in an attempt to understand why people are so devoted to making cheese.

Civil Eats
Posters by Carleton College Alumni Artists

For the 2024 election issue, the Voice commissioned four alumni artists to reinvent the get-out-the-vote poster.

Voice
Oakland adopts environmental plan that misses many resident concerns

Some community leaders say Oakland’s first environmental plan to address pollution and other health risks over the next two decades ignores resident recommendations.

Oakland North
Black Birth Matters

Recent book essay addresses the Black maternal mortality crisis, connecting George C. Stoney’s 1950s film ‘All My Babies’ to photographs by LaToya Ruby Frazier.

Leuven University Press