Focus: Myra Kathiria Rosa’s production company, Race to a Future, produces visual content to amplify underserved voices. With assistance from The Farmworker Association of Florida, Inc. (FWAF), they are developing a documentary on food sovereignty practitioners’ cultural practices and social interactions, emphasizing the therapeutic properties of the food they cultivate and their role in community healing.

The project foregrounds agroecology as a pathway to sustainable and equitable food systems. It integrates frameworks of food sovereignty and environmental justice to affirm marginalized communities’ rights to challenge food apartheid and ecological racism through culturally rooted practices and principles of restorative justice. By incorporating ancestral knowledge of nutrition and wellness and centering the traditions of Indigenous agroecologists, the initiative counters historical erasure and amplifies voices systematically excluded from dominant discourses on food systems, environmental practices, and public health.

The project collaborates with rural, low-income communities in Central and South Florida using a participatory methodology. This advocacy model deepens public understanding of the intersections between food sovereignty, cultural preservation, and health while advancing policies promoting sustainability, decolonization, and community empowerment. By elucidating the socio-environmental dimensions of food sovereignty, the project highlights its transformative potential as a vehicle for individual and collective healing.