PhD Candidate
Graduate Center, City University of New York
New york, NY, United States
Carla Silva is a PhD Candidate in Social Welfare at the Graduate Center of City University of New York. Carla is a multi-level social worker with extensive experience developing social service infrastructure within marginalized and materially disadvantaged communities she is a member of and an ally to. Her practice experience focuses on the praxis of change work, social justice, and equity with issues impacting sexual orientation, gender identity, race, and class. As a social welfare PhD Candidate, Carla aspires to research the intersections of food justice (food apartheid and food sovereignty) and identity, as it relates to mutual aid; its merger of direct practice and social action; race/ethnic identity development and preservation; and the advancement of equitable social policy and reform.
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Food Activism and Early Social Work: A Historical Analysis for Food Justice Today
Friday, October 25, 2024
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM CT