Selected press
Selected press coverage of my work in documentary film, organizing, food justice, and housing justice.
"'When there aren’t enough shelter beds, how can we be throwing people out in the rain at a building named after Dr. King?' Reid said."-Street Sense, 2025
“The city [says], ‘we have all these proper channels for you to go through. You get your housing voucher, then you get housing,’ and those proper channels are broken. And then when these communities decide to try to take care of themselves, to work together to take care of each other because the city is failing to do it, the city’s response is to destroy that. And then they wonder why people don’t trust them,” Reid says.
-DCist, 2023“…daring in its investigations, speckled with awkward humor, and, above all, informatively absurd. Through his ambitious trash diet, Reid strives to deconstruct the root cause of America’s silently raging food waste issue…”
- [art]seen at University of Michigan, 2020
“Both Reid and Sacks use their platforms to draw attention to the absurdity of a lifestyle that’s enabled by a broken system.”
- Stonepier Press, 2020
“That Reid is able to easily find good food in supermarket dumpsters is evidence of just how widespread the country’s food waste problem is. Roughly 40 percent of all food in the U.S. goes uneaten, and yet one in seven American households doesn’t have a regular supply of good food.”
- HUFFPOST, 2016Reid with Food Not Bombs says he’s worried that D.C. and federal officials are trying to make it harder for community groups to provide much-needed services to people experiencing homelessness.
-DCist, 2021“I think that right now it’s our job to continue educating people about their food—not just about food waste, but about where their food comes from.”
- Food Tank, 2017
We’ll hear from a man who spent just 5 dollars feeding himself over two years, by mastering the art of dumpster diving.
- Connecticut Public Radio, 2021"A lot of people think that there's a method and that this is difficult," he told CTV News Channel on Wednesday. "It's not. It's just a matter of going around back and looking inside a bin."
-CTV News, 2016