Nina Fallenbaum
Nina F. Ichikawa, formerly Nina Kahori Fallenbaum, is a writer, agricultural activist, and the Executive Director of the Berkeley Food Institute.[1]
Career[edit]
As the Executive Director of the Berkeley Institute, Ichikawa has spoken with NBC Bay Area about the importance of urban farming "for elders, for low-income families, for immigrants,"[2] and with HuffPost about the history of backyard and rooftop gardening in Asian American communities.[3] She also spoke with The Guardian about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including that "This is an opportunity for meat-eaters to join together with sustainable producers of meat, and with meat and dairy industry workers, to all unite together and say we want a better system."[4] She has also been featured in an article written and sponsored by the nonprofit organization CUESA,[5] and quoted for her expertise by KQED[6] and Prevention magazine.[7] In 2017, after the California Values Act was passed to provide new safeguards for undocumented immigrants, Shakirah Simley of the San Francisco Chronicle asked "chefs, farmers and advocates" about the meaning of the word "sanctuary," including Ichikawa, who said:
- "There is no food without sanctuary. How can you purport to provide food to someone with an equal serving of fear, duress, humiliation or exclusion? For food and agriculture spaces to go another way, we need to reject the politics of discrimination and division at every level — in hiring, ordering, selling, distributing, land purchasing."[8]
In 2021, after the Berkeley Food Institute collaborated with the nonprofit advocacy group Restaurant Opportunities Centers United on a study on racial and gender bias in the restaurant industry, Ichikawa spoke with The New York Times about how "there are biases that lock people into certain positions."[9]
Ichikawa is the former food and agriculture editor for Hyphen magazine, a publication covering Asian-American arts and politics.[10][11] Her writing has also been published in Nichi Bei Times, Nikkei Heritage, Civil Eats,[12] Discover Nikkei,[13] Rafu Shimpo,[14] and Al Jazeera America.[15] She also contributed an essay to the 2013 book Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader.[16][17][18] Ichikawa was also a 2011-13 Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Food and Community Fellow,[19] and during her fellowship, she helped found AAPI Food Action,[20] a food policy lobbying organization.[11]
Ichikawa previously worked on the Obama administration's "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" initiative at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.[21] Ichikawa is currently a member of the California Farmer Justice Collaborative.[22]
Early life and education[edit]
Ichikawa was born and grew up in Berkeley, California.[23] She attended Berkeley High School, served as a co-coordinator of the Asian Pacific Student Union, and helped to establish the first high school Asian American Studies program in the United States.[24][25][26]
Ichikawa graduated with a BA from U.C. Berkeley and an MA from Tokyo's Meiji Gakuin University. She lived in Japan for ten years. After several years on the east coast, she returned to the Bay Area with her husband in 2015.[23]
In January 2021, she was featured in an in-depth profile by the Cal Alumni Association of UC Berkeley.[27]
Personal life[edit]
Ichikawa’s great-grandfather emigrated from Japan to the United States in 1895 and purchased land before the California Alien Land Law of 1913.[16] For three years, he and his family lived in a concentration camp during World War II, but continued to pay property taxes on the land.[16]
A photograph of Ichikawa's family, including her grandmother, on a trip to Yosemite National Park in the 1930's is featured in an NBC News article about Asian Americans and the travel industry.[28]
In 2019, the San Francisco Chronicle profiled the efforts of Ichikawa and her husband to house her mother, Betty Kano, an artist and educator, in a "tiny home" on their shared property.[23]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Team". Berkeley Food Institute. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
- ↑ Colorado, Melissa (February 2, 2021). "Urban Farming: How Rooftop Gardens Are Feeding Families and Helping the Planet". NBC Bay Area. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
- ↑ Dao, Alana (August 23, 2019). "How Asian Americans Use Kitchen Gardens To Reclaim Their Heritage". HuffPost. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
- ↑ Holpuch, Amanda (May 10, 2020). "Meat-free future? Coronavirus exposes America's fragile food system". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
- ↑ CUESA (October 29, 2020). "CUESA Gets into Civic Engagement Through Food and Voting". KQED. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ↑ Schapiro, Mark (June 23, 2019). "'Centers of Insurrection': Central Valley Farmers Reckon With Climate Change". KQED. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ↑ Editors (September 5, 2018). "29 Little Ways to Cut Back on Food Waste". Prevention. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
- ↑ Simley, Shakirah (October 16, 2017). "What Sanctuary means to those on the periphery". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ↑ Wilson, Korsha (January 11, 2021). "How High-End Restaurants Have Failed Black Female Chefs". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
- ↑ "Nina F. Ichikawa". Hyphen: Asian America Unabridged. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Nguyen, Minh (July 22, 2013). "Q&A: Nina F. Ichikawa On Not Eating With Our Eyes Closed". International Examiner. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ↑ "Authors". Civil Eats. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
- ↑ "Nina Kahori Fallenbaum". Discover Nikkei. July 2009. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
- ↑ Fallenbaum, Nina (January 9, 2013). "On Diverse Leadership: Rest in Peace, Sen. Inouye". Rafu Shimpo. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ↑ Ichikawa, Nina F. (December 4, 2013). "Why city slickers should care about the Farm Bill". Al Jazeera America. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Erway, Cathy (April 8, 2019). "Bok Choy Isn't 'Exotic'". Eater. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
- ↑ Ku, Robert Ji-Song; Manalansan, Martin F.; Mannur, Anita (September 23, 2013). Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader. NYU Press. ISBN 9781479812035. Retrieved 9 February 2021. Search this book on
- ↑ Kim, Whizy (May 26, 2020). "Asian Snacks Are More Popular Than Ever In America. Here's What That Says About Asian-Americans". Refinery29. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
food writer and activist Nina F. Ichikawa argues in an essay published in Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader that Asian-American farmers, greengrocers, and entrepreneurs have been instrumental in the U.S. health food movement — a role that has been obscured if not misremembered. In particular, she points to Japanese-Americans Aveline and Michio Kushi, who opened the natural foods store Erewhon back in 1966 — long before Whole Foods existed — and inspired a host of other natural food stores to pop up.
- ↑ IATP (April 21, 2011). "IATP Announces the 2011–2013 Food and Community Fellows". Common Dreams. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
- ↑ "Our Team". AAPI Food Action. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
- ↑ "Regional Food Hub Resource Guide" (PDF). U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA. April 2012.
- ↑ "CFJC Members". California Farmer Justice Collaborative. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 Landry, Cassandra (July 31, 2019). "Tiny home in Oakland a perfect fit for grandmother". San Fransisco Chronicle. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
- ↑ "Nina Kahori Fallenbaum". Hyphen.
- ↑ Schevitz, Tanya (January 23, 1995). "Bridging Berkeley's racial chasms". SFGate. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
- ↑ Gauthier, Pearl (January 7, 2021). "Previous APIA Studies at BHS Proves Course Can Be Revived". Berkeley High Jacket. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
- ↑ "For Nina Ichikawa '00, Agriculture Is More than Farming—It's Life". Cal Alumni Association. January 4, 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
- ↑ "Travel Industry Caters to Asian Americans with Culture, History". NBC News. January 7, 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Official Twitter account
- Fallenbaum talks about Asian-American food heritage in the South
- Profile on Hyphen
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