Breakout Session 3: Project Neutral Grounds: At the Intersection of People, Street Food, and Hustle

Abstract

2022 Inclusion Imperative Humanities SymposiumInclusion and Public Humanities:Challenges and Opportunities for Justice-Oriented Teaching and LearningFriday, April 8, 2022Project Neutral Grounds is an innovative partnership project exploring the history of and relationship between Black and Brown street-food vendors when navigating space and place in post-Katrina New Orleans. Panelists discussed the planning process for the project with its core collaborators and the ways we hold each other accountable. This project is a 揼raduation� of past projects, and we hope to illustrate how we build from our ineluctable mistakes and constant processes of checking in to do better as we design a public humanities methodological paradigm that is ethical, intentional, and collaborative.PresentersDr. Sarah Fouts, Assistant Professor and Director of Public Humanities Minor Program, Department of American Studies, UMBCFernando L髉ez, New Orleans-based Cultural DocumentarianToya Ex Lewis, Organizer, Southern Project Hustle