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| ISSUE NO. 598 |
| NEARLY 12 YEARS AGO . . . we started GFJ on the premise that there were certain kinds of jobs out there - good food jobs - for which people were yearning. We started the company from a discerning standpoint, though we hoped and strived for it to be expansive, nonetheless. You could say that the jobs were always going to be curated because they had to be - if we were defining what a good food job was, then we were also defining what it was not. This is how we arrived out our editorial policy, a once fairly simple statement that served multiple roles: it was both a definition, as well as a value statement, and it was informative to our community. If someone said, 'hey, why aren't you posting my job?' we could point back to that policy, and we often did. For a solid decade, that statement was short, encompassing the two legs of expansive discernment we stood on: that a good food job had to relate in some way to sustainability and/or food culture. In 2020, as we have written about in the past, we realized how much we had been teetering on those legs, attempting a balancing act that fulfilled our mission only from the narrow viewpoint of the two White women who founded it (yup, that's us!) without stepping into the power that we had to redefine what a good food job was in the context of equitable access to opportunity. From the wisdom and activism of many others, we learned that the third leg we were always missing was social justice, or anti-racism, and we adapted our editorial policy accordingly. Today we are sharing it with you, so you can see our words in action, and we can remind ourselves that it is the ongoing work, the evolution - complete with reflection, challenge, discomfort, and uncertainty - that takes us from one place to another, never reaching a final destination so much as working together on the journey. GFJ EDITORIAL POLICY /// Our values are food culture, sustainability, and anti-racism. /// We believe that food culture requires food justice; sustainability cannot exist without ecological justice; and that anti-racism is fundamental to both. We commit to sharing opportunities that align with those values, so whether you are seeking a job or hiring a new team member, you can find a community of people who want to do this work alongside you. /// How Does it Work? 1. We retain full editorial review and approval of all job postings before they go live. This process often involves outreach and collaboration, as well as feedback from job seekers and employers alike. /// WORDS IN ACTION: all Good Food Jobs pay at least $15/hr. Learn more. 2. We continually improve our methods with the goal of re-humanizing the hiring process, modeling cultural change within the organizations that post jobs with us, and providing resources for education and continued growth. As Brené Brown says, "I am here to get it right, not be right." We remain open at all times to your feedback. /// WORDS IN ACTION: check out our free guide to How to Write a More Equitable Job Post. 3. We provide a platform for voices within the food world to share their stories, compile resources to support the proliferation of good food jobs, and keep in touch with ideas, questions, job highlights, and tidbits in our weekly newsletter. /// WORDS IN ACTION: inspired by #sharethemicnow we feature stories from BIQPOC voices in our newsletter, on social media, and in GFJ Stories. Do you see something our editorial policy doesn't address? Is anything unclear or inconsistent? We'd love to hear from you. /// |
tidbits...resources on anti-racism, environmentalism and food culture AKA stuff we're reading / listening to / watching / noticing / thinking about / captivated by this Tuesday . . . |
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