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Acting Food Policy Council Members
Fe Arreola
Steve Bauck
Branden Born
Mary Embleton
Kelly Horton
Sylvia Kantor
Jennifer Lamson
Erin MacDougall
Pablo Monsivais
Tammy Morales
Linda Nageotte
Laura Niemi
Laura Raymond
Fe Arreola, City of Seattle - Human Services
Fe serves on the City of Seattle’s Food Enhancement Interdepartmental Team. Her background in food ranges from hunger relief to farming. Fe was raised on a 360+ acre working vegetable farm in Yakima Valley for most of her childhood and learned the importance of access and sustainability to fresh fruits and vegetables to our communities.
Her current work is as the food programs specialist working with the emergency food programs in the City’s Human Services Department (going on 9 years). In her work, Fe enjoys working with community partners that are experts in the field of food procurement, food distribution, advocacy, resource development, meal programs and services, and food banks. She also works with other food programs that do not receive city funds. Her main focus is managing subcontracting services to more than 25 community agencies for meal programs, food banks, home delivery service, food distribution, and advocacy and systems support.
Steve Bauck, Northwest Harvest
Steve has been involved in food and hunger issues for over 30 years. His first real introduction to local food systems was in the early 1970’s when he served as a volunteer buyer for a food buying club, buying produce from local wholesalers in Cleveland, OH. He also has many years of experience working closely with farmworker groups, organizing a local farmworker support group and serving on the national board of the National Farmworker Ministry. For the past 22 years Steve has worked at Northwest Harvest and is currently director of the Hunger Response Network, responsible for relations with Northwest Harvest’s 300 member programs, advocacy work and program development.
Steve joins the AFPC to join with others to seek ways to increase food security, health and local food sustainability in King County.
Branden Born, UW Urban Planning
Branden is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington. His research interests include planning process and social justice, particularly with regard to the inclusion of marginalized populations in societal decision-making; land use planning and regionalism; and urban food systems.
Branden has been active in developing food system theory and practice for over ten years. He helped draft Fertile Ground: Planning for the Madison/Dane County Food System, one of the earliest university food system assessments, while a graduate student at Wisconsin. In 2005-2006 he was the faculty leader for a Luce Foundation supported studio course at UW-Seattle, for which the client was the City of Seattle, that focused on defining and enhancing the functionality of the Seattle food system. From that class came the Sound Food Report: Enhancing Seattle’s Food System. He remains the faculty mentor for that program for 2006-2007. He teaches courses on food systems, land use, planning methods, as well as community-based studios. He recently co-authored a paper, Avoiding the Local Trap: Scale and Food Systems in Planning Research. Branden is a member of the American Planning Association, and sits on APA’s Food System Steering Committee.
Mary Embleton, Cascade Harvest Coalition
Mary is a consulting economist and planner with over 25 years experience in applying economic analysis to a wide range of land use, transportation, environmental, and planning and policy issues to meet public and private sector client needs. For the last eight years, Mary has been Executive Director of the Cascade Harvest Coalition. The Coalition addresses issues affecting the local food and farm system by building awareness and appreciation for the important economic, environmental, social and cultural aspects of farming in the region; promoting preservation and protection of farmlands and farming resources; enhancing community food security by improving access to locally-produced food; and working collaboratively with individuals and organizations to effectively identify and address issues facing the local food system. Mary operates multiple programs that focus on local farm product identification, consumer, farmer and policymaker education, market development, and food access including Puget Sound Fresh, Farm to Table: Connecting Local Farmers with Local Food Buyers, Washington FarmLink, Harvest Celebrations, Washington Ag Summit, and NW Farming for Humanity.
Kelly Horton, Connect Nutrition
Kelly, a Food Policy and Nutrition Program Planning Consultant, is a registered dietitian and founder of the consulting organization Connect Nutrition. She has a Master’s degree in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition from Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management. In 2005, Kelly was a Science Policy and Technology Graduate Fellow at The National Academies within the Institute of Medicine on the Food and Nutrition Board and contributed to the board’s report “Food Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity?” She is Washington State Food and Nutrition Council’s Agriculture Legislative Chair and is a member of the American Dietetic Association’s Hunger and Environmental Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group. Kelly is passionate about creating a healthier food system and greater food security for all through the intersections between sound science, community-based practices and public policy.
Sylvia Kantor, WSU King County Extension
Sylvia holds a faculty position as an Extension Educator in Small Farms and Food Systems. Sylvia's education is grounded in both social and natural sciences and her diverse background is an indicator of her affinity for systems thinking, a skill that is critical for positive change in our food system. Evidence of her commitment to values of strong, healthy communities is found locally in her dedication to serving as a volunteer with Seattle Tilth for the past ten years (from gardener to board president), to working on small, local family farms, and to sharing her convictions about supporting sustainable, local economies with friends and colleagues whenever she has the chance. Professionally, her career has evolved over time and with increasing responsibility, from a focus on river ecology and watershed stewardship to sustainable agriculture and community food systems. Her current work focuses on establishing a local food policy council, developing farm-to-school connections, and promoting local agriculture through education for farmers and consumers.
Jennifer Lamson, Good Food Strategies
Jen is a founding partner of Good Food Strategies LLC, a strategic communications and public affairs firm specializing in sustainable food issues. She has more than fifteen years experience in grassroots organizing, policy campaigns, and media outreach. Jen was responsible for leading numerous nationwide grassroots citizen campaigns as vice president of Common Cause, a nonprofit based in Washington DC. Here in the Northwest she has worked with a wide variety of food system partners as well as a number of conservation groups. She has served on the board of the Cascade Harvest Coalition since 2001, currently as chair.
Erin MacDougall, Public Health Seattle & King County
Erin represents Public Health – Seattle & King County on the AFPC. She manages the Healthy Eating and Active Living Program of the King County Overweight Prevention Initiative. Her passion is to advance programs and policies around Nutrition, Physical Activity, Land Use and the Built Environment to help all residents "make the healthy choice, the easy choice." Her background is in Nutrition Science, with an emphasis on understanding chronic disease. She has been involved locally for the last 5 years in school gardening (leads the Puget Sound School Gardens Collective),Farm to School efforts (sitting on the local Farm to School program steering committee), community gardening (as a P-Patch gardener and as a board member for the P-Patch Trust). She is a strong advocate for the role of local, sustainable agriculture in the prevention of chronic disease and as an essential way to promote lifelong health for people and the planet.
Pablo Monsivais,
Center for Public Health Nutrition
Pablo is a Research Analyst at the University of Washington Center for Public Health Nutrition. His work focuses on the psychological, social and economic factors that influence how people eat. Prior to his current position, Pablo was a senior fellow in behavioral sciences in the UW's School of Dentistry and a Wellcome Trust research fellow in physiology at University College London. Pablo earned his Ph.D. in neurobiology & behavior and a M.P.H. degree in public health nutrition at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Tammy Morales, Volunteer
Tammy has served the Seattle community since moving here in 2000. She first worked as a program officer at Impact Capital, a community development financial institution, then moved to Social Venture Partners International where she helped promote philanthropy in Seattle and 23 other communities across North America. Tammy has worked as a consultant with the Community Food Security Coalition and volunteers her time with Sustainable Seattle's Food Cluster project and the Food Policy Council. Prior to moving to Seattle, Tammy served as a legislative director to a member of the Texas House and as a budget and policy analyst for the City of New York. She holds a Master's degree in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas.
Linda Nageotte, Food Lifeline
Linda is President & CEO of Food Lifeline, the largest hunger relief organization in Washington State. She grew up in Oklahoma, but moved to Washington State to attend WSU for graduate study. After working for several years in University Student Affairs, Linda entered the non-profit arena in 1991. She spent two years as the director of a small agency in Moscow, Idaho, and in 1994 she became the Executive Director of Rotary First Harvest. She joined Food Lifeline in 1998.
Linda especially enjoys new program development, work with Boards of Directors and staff development. She has served on several national and regional hunger councils, advisory committees and task forces. Linda is currently on the Executive Committee of Executive Alliance, the
Puget Sound area's non-profit association.
Laura Niemi, Seattle Tilth
Laura has nine years of experience working to serve the diverse interests of urban food gardeners through her work in the non-profit, government and retail sectors. Currently she is the Garden Program Manager at Seattle Tilth and is responsible for creating and delivering educational programs on organic food gardening and composting to Seattle area residents. In the six years Laura has worked at Seattle Tilth, she has connected with thousands of urban food gardeners through events, classes and garden work parties. Prior to working at Seattle Tilth, Laura was the Community Gardens Coordinator for King County managing gardens in Redmond, Kent, and South Park. Laura is committed to building a healthy urban community and has worked to involve and collaborate with diverse community groups in programs that support the urban food system through her work on the Eat Local for Thanksgiving campaign, King County Food and Fitness Initiative, and the Acting Food Policy Council.
Laura Raymond, City of Seattle - P-Patch Program
Laura has been actively engaged in community organizing around local food system issues for ten years. She currently co-leads the Food System Enhancement Interdepartmental Team for the City of Seattle where she works in the Department of Neighborhood's P-Patch Program. Laura's work includes several direct marketing projects that connect local farmers and city dwellers including the Pike Place Market Basket CSA in Seattle and projects in Minnesota. Laura served on the host committee for the 2003 Community Food Security Coalition conference in Seattle and currently serves on the board of the Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network.
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