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Do you want to learn more about healthy food access and make a difference in your community?

The Tampa Bay Community Food Systems Internship is a collaborative opportunity for students from local colleges and universities to work with community-based organizations to learn about local and global food systems. Coordinators from UF/IFAS Extension Family Nutrition Program, Eckerd College, and USF St. Petersburg match students with sites supervisors from community-based food organizations.

The internship focuses on several areas in the food system: Food Production, Distribution, Food Access, Food Justice, Education, Policy, and Resource Recovery. Through instruction with a community organization site supervisor, students are encouraged to develop expertise in the most relevant area of the food system for them, yet also utilize systems thinking to engage and consider the food system as a whole. Interns engage in weekly team site experiences as well as create and present on a capstone project that enhances one or more aspects of the food system in Pinellas County.

Requirements:

1. Commit to an internship project with a local organization for 8 hours/week
2. Attend a minimum of eight out of ten weekly Thursday meetings from 9:00AM-12:00PM to participate in Community Days where we will help a local organization to build a community garden or other special project. (Starting on Thursday 9/6/18)

Please join us on Thursday Aug. 30th from 9am to 12pm Davis Hall Room 108 - the College of Arts & Sciences Office to learn more about the internship and to sign up for one of the internship sites available for Fall 2018.

Jyoti Rao - Internship Coordinator / College of Arts & Sciences at USFSP

Contact me with questions: jyotirao@mail.usf.edu / 727-873-4176