Act4Food: How the youth can transform global food inequity

Sophie Healy-Thow, who was recently awarded a prestigious Global Citizen Prize for her work in poverty and food security, is coming to Galway’s Food on the Edge

Sophie Healy-Thow developed an interest in food sustainability through her mother and grandmother while growing up in Kinsale. Pictures: Suhail Patel for Global Citizen

“I’ve always known what I wanted to do since I was 14.”

Kinsale woman Sophie Healy-Thow is a youth activist whose work towards transforming food systems was recognised in New York this May when she was awarded a Global Citizen Prize.