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Sunnyside Shower Project for Portlanders living on the street
In early May, 2024, I was interviewed by Dave Miller on Think Out Loud (a show on Oregon Public Broadcasting) about the Sunnyside Shower...
Aug 16, 20241 min read
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The Four Top: Wine, News, and Culture
In my third visit on the Four Top, I joined Rebecca Hopkins and Cathy Huyghe for a discussion about mental health in the wine industry, what we do to stay balanced and healthy, and why we need to discuss mental health more openly. Listen to Episode 51: Rebecca Hopkins, Cathy Huyghe, and Hannah Wallace  on iTunes. In the studio at OPB with Beck Hopkins (left), host Katherine Cole (right of me) and Cathy Huyghe (right)
Sep 3, 20181 min read
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The Four Top: Climate Change, Wildfires, and Rosé in Winter
I was on Katherine Cole's the Four Top again—a marvelous podcast about hot-button topics in food and drink. You can listen to our wide-ranging discussion about climate change and wine, the wildfires (and wine), and why rosé should also be enjoyed in the winter, below. The other guests were climatologist Dr. Greg Jones, writer Jordan Michelman from Sprudge, and Katherine herself. Listen to "Ep. 45: Dr. Greg Jones | Hannah Wallace | Jordan Michelman" on iTunes. In true Por
Jun 20, 20181 min read
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The Four Top: Sanctuary Restaurants, Undocumented Labor in Food, and Peruvian Cuisine
A few weeks ago, wine writer Katherine Cole  invited me to be a panelist on her new podcast, the Four Top. On the podcast, which just won a James Beard media award, Katherine and three other food-world insiders (usually members of the media) talk about hot-button topics in the food and beverage culture. For this episode , Peter Platt of Andina restaurant, OPB reporter Roxy de La Torre, and I discussed Sanctuary Restaurants, undocumented immigrants in the restaurant industry,
May 9, 20171 min read
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International Association of Culinary Professionals 2014
I moderated "Turning Food Deserts into Oases of Good Food" at the 2014 IACP conference. Whether you call them food deserts or food...
Mar 17, 20141 min read
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Farmer-Chef Connection, 2014
I moderated a panel called "Plate and Principles" for the 14th annual Farmer-Chef Connection . On the panel were (from left to right): Chapel Hill, North Carolina chef Andrea Reusing, and Portland chefs Aaron Dionne, Greg Higgins, Jason French, and Joshua McFadden. That's me on the right!
Mar 3, 20141 min read
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Macalester College's Community and Global Health seminar
My colleague Devavani Chatterjea invited me to speak at Macalaster's Community and Global Health Seminar. My lecture, on "Good Food for All: Why Farm-Fresh, Organic Food is anything but Elitist," came out of research I'd been doing for a potential book project on the topic of food justice.
Apr 25, 20131 min read
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