Quarterly Meeting - Virtual
March 5, 2024
9:00 - 10:30 AM
March 5, 2024
9:00 - 10:30 AM
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Meet the Panel
Jamie Fanous, Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Policy Director
Jamie is the Policy Director at Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) where she focuses on working with farmers to create and advance policies that are rooted in social justice and equity. In her full-time position at CAFF a California-based non-profit she is actively working on transformational policy change. She works to create avenues to bring farmers into the policy-making process to collectively tackle some of the biggest barriers our small-scale and BIPOC farmers face, such as land access, drought, infrastructure, and more. She believes the only way we can create true systems-level change is to ensure those most impacted by policy decisions are in the policy-making seat.
Prior to advocacy, Jamie has worked in a range of positions from technical assistance and on-farm research in climate change and soil health, to managing an urban farm actively engaged with the local community. She has had the opportunity to work on farms in various parts of the world from Ghana to Panama which has shaped her views and perspectives on cultural foods, sustainability, and community. She holds an MS in Agriculture, Food, and Environment, and a MA in Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University.
Jamie is the Policy Director at Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) where she focuses on working with farmers to create and advance policies that are rooted in social justice and equity. In her full-time position at CAFF a California-based non-profit she is actively working on transformational policy change. She works to create avenues to bring farmers into the policy-making process to collectively tackle some of the biggest barriers our small-scale and BIPOC farmers face, such as land access, drought, infrastructure, and more. She believes the only way we can create true systems-level change is to ensure those most impacted by policy decisions are in the policy-making seat.
Prior to advocacy, Jamie has worked in a range of positions from technical assistance and on-farm research in climate change and soil health, to managing an urban farm actively engaged with the local community. She has had the opportunity to work on farms in various parts of the world from Ghana to Panama which has shaped her views and perspectives on cultural foods, sustainability, and community. She holds an MS in Agriculture, Food, and Environment, and a MA in Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University.
Matt Lee, Department of Nutrition Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health PhD Candidate, Population Health Science
Matt is a PhD student in the Population Health Sciences program at the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Nutrition. His research is focused on evaluating existing and potential nutrition policies and program that are poised to reduce cardiometabolic disease, and he is currently supporting projects related to the advertising and sales of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) following an SSB excise tax, to diet quality during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to the cost-effectiveness of national- and state-level nutrition policies.
Matt is a PhD student in the Population Health Sciences program at the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Nutrition. His research is focused on evaluating existing and potential nutrition policies and program that are poised to reduce cardiometabolic disease, and he is currently supporting projects related to the advertising and sales of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) following an SSB excise tax, to diet quality during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to the cost-effectiveness of national- and state-level nutrition policies.