Olivia Watkins (Black Farmer Fund), “Black Farmer Fund: Supporting Black Food Entrepreneurs” (Yale Center for Business and the Environment)

Join Black Farmer Fund Co-Founder and President Olivia Watkins as she shares about this emerging community investment fund striving to create a more equitable food system for black farmers and food business owners.

 

Olivia will join CBEY Resident Fellow Tagan Engel to discuss the Fund’s first year of community-designed investments, supports for regenerative practices, and the innovative ways they are working to address historical and current inequities for Black entrepreneurs in the food system.