The Food Justice Fellowship places MTSO students with non-profit organizations serving food insecure communities for field education during the 2026-2027 school year in Franklin and surrounding counties. This fellowship is part of MTSO’s Community Food and Wellness Initiative, with support from the Harry C. Moores Foundation.
Food justice in a broad context is described as “ensuring that the benefits and risks of where, what, and how food is grown and produced, transported and distributed, and accessed and eaten are shared fairly"(1). Food justice intersects social, economic, ecological, cultural and spiritual aspects of ourselves and the fabric of our communities.
Fellows will have the opportunity to serve - with hands, heart and mind - within a non-profit that directly serves food insecure communities through distribution and/or. Fellows will engage in the art of practical wisdom, which “enables us to practice soulful eating, seeking justice for food workers and caring for the earth in ways that are context- and agent specific" (2). They will experience food justice as an enlivened ethic within a complicated and ever changing landscape.
A stipend of $15 per hour is provided.
MTSO students who are interested in becoming a Food Justice Fellow for the 2026-2027 calendar year can learn and complete an interest form.
Interest forms are requested by May 31, 2026
Non-profit organizations that are interested in becoming a host site for 2026 can learn more by emailing Laura Ann, Seminary Hill Farm Liaison, seminaryhillfarm@mtso.edu.
(1) Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi, Food Justice (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010), 6.
(2) Christopher Carter, The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith and Food Justice (Urbana, Chicago and Springfield, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2021), 126.