Contributing to a regional effort to improve access to healthy, affordable food, Elon Law Professor Eric Fink has joined the Renaissance Community Co-Op (RCC) Board of Directors.
[/caption]The RCC website states that it was founded in 2012, “to create a democratically owned and controlled grocery store in Northeast Greensboro that provides all of Greensboro with healthy foods at affordable prices and has a commitment to locally sourced foods, community education and dignified jobs.”
Portions of Northeast Greensboro are characterized as a “food desert,” defined by the USDA as an “urban neighborhood [or] rural town without ready access to fresh, healthy and affordable food.”
A recent News & Record opinion column about the Renaissance Community Co-Op (RCC) is available here.
In addition to serving as an RCC board member, Fink has contributed voluntary service with the national Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) and the Greensboro, N.C.-based Beloved Community Center. Fink has provided analysis of labor law issues recently for regional, national and online news and information outlets including The Century Foundation, the Pennsylvania-based Rick Smith Show, truth-out.org, NPR-affiliate WFDD radio and WFMY News.
More information about Elon Law Professor Eric Fink is available here.