I don't know what I would like to be yet, but Project EATS helped me to realize that I love to work with people and be close to the community.
-- Project EATS Youth Fellow, Summer 2014
LINDA GOODE BRYANT is the Founder and President of Active Citizen Project and Project EATS, originally from Columbus, OH. She developed Active Citizen Project while filming the 2004 Presidential Elections and developed Project EATS during the 2008 Global Food Crisis. Linda is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Peabody Award recipient. She was Founder and Director of Just Above Midtown, Inc. (JAM), a New York City non-profit artists space. Linda has a Masters of Business Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in painting from Spelman College.
Linda believes art is as organic as food and life. It is a conversation anyone can enter. It is a place where we all reside. An energy that is always renewable. It is the essence of humanity. It is our promise to care and take care.
ACP initiates critical public discourse and creates opportunities for diverse people to pursue their mutual well-being.
ACP trains people to use the resources they have to connect, design, and implement the changes they need.
ACP develops projects for sustainable change using art and media to engage people in collaborative and experiential Art Actions.
ACP creates lasting, sustainable social and economic changes through internally motivated behavior.