News Headline
Mikaila Way ’12 Works with Indigenous Communities to Shape the Future of Food Systems
Source
Pacific University Oregon
Publication Date
2021-04-27
Throughout her childhood, Mikaila Way ’12 learned bits and pieces about the genocide waged against Indigenous peoples of North America, including forced displacement, forced assimilation in boarding schools, massacres and targeted killings. She did not forget.Today, Way works as the Indigenous peoples’ liaison for North America with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the U.N. She partners with Indigenous people regionally and internationally to ensure their political and technical leadership, as well as their rights, are prominent in FAO’s efforts to end world hunger and malnutrition.