A Human Rights Approach to the Right to Food with Professor Córdova Montes

In this episode of Repast, Diana is joined as co-host by Lavanya Sathyamurthy, UCLA Law student and co-founder of the Food, Race, and Equity Initiative. Diana and Lavanya talk with Professor Denisse Córdova Montes from the University of Central Florida.  Here, the three discuss Professor Córdova Montes’ career as a human rights advocate and educator, her work as the Acting Associate Director of the University of Miami School of Law’s Human Rights Clinic, and a human rights approach to the right to food, among other things.

Professor Córdova Montes is an Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida. 

Diana Winters is the Deputy Director of the Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy at UCLA Law.

You can find blog posts about the Food, Race, and Equity Initiative at UCLA Law here and here.

You can find Professor Córdova Montes’ Maine Law Review article on the Maine right to food here.

You can find a link to the National Right to Food Community of Practice’s website here.

You can find the article titled The “Second Amendment of Food”: Some Reflections on American Liberalism, commented on in the podcast, here.