Quail Bell is creating a food justice initiative with original digital media, public art, and in-person activations. There are three branches: Urban Jungle Eats, Heartland Eats, and World Eats. The initiative comes to life through online videos, documentaries, photo-based public art, bus shelter ads, QR code stickers, listening sessions, audio exhibitions, and surveys.

The overlap between food and climate justice is clear. Food comes from the environment, which is suffering due to the climate crisis. Everybody needs food, yet equity issues mean that not everyone gets it. And for those who have the privilege of choice, all consumption involves a carbon footprint, which has consequences.

This initiative was first validated by The Center for Micro-Entrepreneurial Training, which awarded Quail Bell first place in the Summer 2025 pitch competition. Watch the pitch here. This work directly builds upon videos founder Christine Stoddard completed at Columbia Journalism School, as well as her reporting for FoodNavigator and social impact events for corporate clients through Visit.org. She has a history of social practice, community art, and solutions journalism.

At this time, we are applying for grants and seeking corporate partners to realize our creative, humanizing, and empowering vision expressed through art, media, and oral history.