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Our Mission

To ensure all New Yorkers have access to healthy, affordable, culturally appropriate foods through equity-centered, high-impact public policy.

Our Vision
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Access to quality food is an essential human right. Lack of access is an income equity issue compounded by systemic racial and gender-based barriers.

We believe the government has a fundamental responsibility and an unmatched capacity to end poverty and its consequence: hunger. To that end, we advocate for high-impact public policy change that ensures all New Yorkers have access to healthy, affordable, plentiful and culturally appropriate foods. 

Our Approach
  • We strive for high-impact policy change and strong implementation that dismantle income inequities and racial and gender-based barriers;

  • We are guided by solid policy and budget analysis;

  • We build creative and strategic coalitions; 

  • We believe in the strength of collective power, experiences, and knowledge; and

  • We are fueled by the full partnership and meaningful engagement of people most directly affected.

Our Mission
Our Team
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Our Team

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Liz Accles

Executive Director

Kathy Goldman​

Co-Founder

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Agnes Molnar

Co-Founder

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Anna Lilia Araiza

Director of Youth Leadership

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Ribka Getachew

Director of the NY Good Food Purchasing Program Campaign

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Wagaye Mesele

Advocacy Manager

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Taylor Pate

NYS Good Food Purchasing Campaign Manager

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Abbie Watts

Director of Research and School Partnerships

Board

Minerva Delgado

President of the Board

Robyn Furman

Vice President of the Board

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Mercedes Turner

Secretary of the Board

Claudia Dymond

Treasurer of the Board

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Antoinette Emers

Member of the Board

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Marissa Hersh

Member of the Board

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Nina Guercio

Member of the Board

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Dara Kagan

Member of the Board

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Monique Lindsay

Member of the Board

Jan Poppendieck

Member of the Board

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Tina Stinson-DaCruz

Member of the Board

Contact

Contact

Email

info@foodadvocates.org

Phone

646-603-3021

 

Media Inquiries

mschare@groupgordon.com 

212-784-5704

Address

115 Broadway

New York, NY 10006

Liz Accles

Executive Director

laccles@foodadvocates.org

Agnes Molnar

Co-Founder

amolnar@foodadvocates.org

 

Abbie Watts

Director of Research and School Partnerships

awatts@foodadvocates.org

Ribka Getachew

Director of NYC Good Food Purchasing Policy Campaign

rgetachew@foodadvocates.org

Anna Lilia Araiza

Director of Youth Leadership

aaraiza@foodadvocates.org

Wagaye Mesele

Advocacy Manager

wmesele@foodadvocates.org

Taylor Pate

NYS Good Food Purchasing Campaign Manager

tpate@foodadvocates.org

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