Beyond the Ring: Vegan Fighter

Author

Bianca Silva, CUNY Graduate School of JournalismFollow

Graduation Date

Fall 12-31-2015

Grading Professor

B.J. Schecter

Subject Concentration

Arts & Culture

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Abstract

Omowale Adewale, an amateur MMA fighter and boxer, spends his time outside the ring as director of Grassroots Artists MovEment (G.A.ME), an organization in the Bronx dedicated to provide resources to low-income residents like healthcare, access to healthy foods via means of gardening and youth incarceration prevention programs. He has been the director of G.A.ME since 2001 and routinely visits classrooms where he provides lectures on how to eat healthy foods-even incorporating vegan foods and implement after school physical programs like boxing where he occasionally serves as a trainer.

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Recommended Citation

Silva, Bianca, "Beyond the Ring: Vegan Fighter" (2015). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gj_etds/113