Food and Faith: Why Eating is a Moral Act
Jim Ennis
Tuesday, 12 Feb 2019 at 7:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Jim Ennis is the executive director of Catholic Rural Life, a nonprofit organization dedicated to issues affecting rural communities, including a just and sustainable food supply and the spiritual, social, and economic wellbeing of rural America. Before joining CRL in 2008, Ennis was the director of FoodAlliance Midwest. He also has a background in project management and marketing with the Pillsbury Company and the Clorox Company. Jim Ennis earned an MBA from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management and holds a BS degree from the University of California-Davis, where he studied agricultural and managerial economics. Msgr. James A. Supple Lecture SeriesCosponsored By:
- Catholic Student Community
- St. Thomas Aquinas Church & Catholic Student Center
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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