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I am receiving Bard College’s John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service at commencement exercises for graduates of the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI).  According to the BPI Wikipedia entry, the program offers a liberal arts degree to incarcerated individuals in five different prisons in New York state.  It enrolls nearly 200 students and is one of the few degree-granting programs that exists since the government eliminated funding for prison education in 1995.

I am giving the Peggy Friedman Memorial Annual Social Justice Public Lecture at Piscataway High School.  7:00 p.m.  Open to the public.

This is a keynote presentation at 8:15 a.m.  to a conference: “Beyond Sugar: Contemporary Nutrition in Pediatric, Oral, and Systemic Health.”  Open to registered participants.  Details are here.

I will keynote the annual conference at the Rochester Convention Center at 5:15.  Open to registered participants.

This will be a lecture on “Food Politics: Advocacy for Social Change” as part of a University of Washington course on Eating the Environment.   Open to the public.  6:30-8:00  p.m.  Kane 120.  Here are FoodSafetyNews notes on what I said, and some from Judy Lightfoot.

I’m participating in a panel after a showing of the new film, “What’s Organic About Organic?”   The film previews June 21-25 at 7:00 p.m., and June 26 and 27 at 2:00 and 7:00 p.m.  Tickets are $10 except June 25, which is a fundraiser for NOFA.  HERE Theater, 145 6th Ave.

Mal Nesheim and I will be talking about Feed Your Pet Right at the Fales special collections section of NYU’s Bobst Library (3rd floor), at 4:00.  Click here for the invitation and details.

I’ll be speaking at a private salon that is open to the public.  The series is in honor of Cyril Patrick Shaughnessy, Jr.  It is free but requires rsvp.  To rsvp, go to cpslectures.com.  Click on “invite me.” This will trigger an e-mail and, later, an e-vite with details about where and when.   My presentation, on “Food Politics, Pet Food Politics, and Today’s Healthcare Mess,” is at 8:00 p.m.