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Third-year law students Michelle Yockelson and Margo Tucker partnered with the Kheprw Institute in Indianapolis to produce a film that demonstrates the food justice issues in metropolitan Indianapolis. The film was the result of the pair working together as 2Ls during the Spring 2016 semester as part of Professor Carlton Waterhouse’s Environmental Justice class.

The film was shown May 22 at the Kheprw Institute, a community organization with a mission to create a more just, equitable world by nurturing youth and young adults to be leaders. Nearly 95 percent of Indianapolis communities are in a “food desert,” which is defined by the USDA as an area with limited access to affordable and nutritious food. The students led a discussion after the film on the solutions necessary to combat the problem.

Yockelson and Tucker created a documentary that was interview-based, talking with people who are coping with this problem on a daily basis and with those who are helping to combat it.

“Our goal was to create a dialogue,” Tucker (in the photo at left) said, “to raise the mindfulness and awareness in Hoosier citizens and how they view food.”

“And we’re encouraging people to continue the dialogue,” Yockelson said.