Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long distance besties everywhere.

I'm Amina Tussaud, and I'm Anne Friedman.

Hey Anne Friedman!

Hey Amina Tussaud, are you ready to keep talking about food justice?

I am so excited to talk about food justice, tell me.

So this episode is pulling out the lens a little bit to talk about the ways that food

justice and activism around this issue kind of fits into like the bigger picture of community

aid, working and being in community with unhoused and marginalized people, and I also really

feel like this episode is rooted in a friendship connection.

Later we're going to chat with Melissa Acidera, who is the founder of a mobile food bank called

Polo's Pantry, and I really admire the work that she's doing for a couple of reasons.

Like one is that she comes to her activism from a place of personal joy and interest.

Food is something that is so near and dear to her and brings her so much joy and the

way she got into helping and being of service and being in community with people is through

that. She was just taking classes in health and food prep and things like that and then

really kind of over time realized what a need there is here in Los Angeles for better

systems to serve people who are currently struggling to not just be fed and healthy but to

have housing and to have health care and all these other issues.

And what I love about her work is that she has really maintained this lens of food.

We talk a lot about how overwhelming it can be to just kind of like see in the social

media scroll or see in the news headlines how bad stuff is in literally every aspect of

like the world and like see how we so thoroughly fail to provide for people.

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