127: It's On Us

This is a special Women's HERstory month edition Tracy does every March. Aliza Tuttle is combining her own personal experiences with food. Growing up volunteering with her grandma in the local soup kitchen, studying food systems and urban studies in college to understand the systemic issues that affect food and inequality, and personally experiencing food insecurity and time poverty — to help build community and help the economy through food. As a volunteer with the Corvallis Sustainability Coalition's Food Action Team during the early days of the pandemic she helped start a group that used crowd funding to buy meals from locally owned restaurants and then gave the meals to anyone who needed a gift of food. It's On Us (IOU) Corvallis has raised over $300,000 and given out 30,000 meals so far. Listen as Tracy and Aliza talk about how IOU Corvallis has been helping the local economy by distributing gift cards to locally owned businesses so people who may not otherwise be can pay full price for food, restoring the food system to one place and one payment method. Useful Links https://itsonuscorvallis.org/ https://www.instagram.com/itsonus_corvallis/ https://www.facebook.com/itsonusCorvallis/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/alizatuttle/ Connect with Tracy: facebook.com/groups/EatingataMeeting thrivemeetings.com