The FCWA Advisory Council supports the Alliance in its growth, development, and outreach, and we are honored to have their wisdom and experience.

Mark Bittman, Author and former NY Times Opinion Columnist

“The FCWA provides a key strategic focus for the food movement to see and act on workers in the food system and to improve the working conditions and wages of these workers”

 

Allison Cohen, Senior Director of Programs, WhyHunger

“The highlight of my relationship with the FCWA so far was setting up the interview for [musician and activist] Tom Morello and [Alliance co-director] Joann with Billboard magazine, and the photos from that shoot were great!”

 

Anna Lappé, Founder and Director, Real Food Media

Anna with Alliance co-directors Jose & Joann at the 2017 James Beard Foundation Leadership Awards where presented them with their recognition

“I collaborated with the Alliance on the Voice of the Food Chain project, so I was able to attend the FCWA’s annual summit with StoryCorps a couple years ago. StoryCorps recorded conversations between workers, and it was very moving, and I saw the impact of FCWA’s work on workers’ lives and in moving forward food system change.”

 

Adam Liebowitz, Director, Community Food Funders

“A highlight of my relationship with the Alliance was that Community Food Funders held a briefing at the Ford Foundation on the Good Food Purchasing Program (GFPP) with other funders and folks working on other food issues, and since then, the NYC GFPP coalition has grown.”

 

Toni Liquori, formerly of School Food Focus

“A highlight for me has been connecting the large urban districts affiliated with Focus to the FCWA and the assessment work of the Center for Good Food Purchasing.”

 

Malini Moraghan, Food and Agriculture Impact Investor

“I met [Alliance co-director] Jose at a roundtable on leadership in the food movement, and we really connected because we were the only two bringing up issues of people of color.”

 

Raj Patel, Professor, Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs, UT Austin

“I met Joann at a conference at UC Berkeley and have been so impressed by the Alliance’s holistic analysis and action on food system issues.”

 

Dania Rajendra, Extension Faculty, Cornell ILR Worker Institute

“The food sector is the largest — and arguably, most consequential. Food workers are the backbone of our economy and a barometer of our moral character. For the health of our economy,  our planet, and our own physical and social wellbeing, food workers’ wages and conditions are the concern of us all. They know what they need and what’s necessary for the food economy to sustain everyone, and I am proud to follow their lead. That is why I believe in and support the work of Food Chain Workers Alliance and their member organizations. I invite you to join me!”

 

Ricardo Salvador, Director and Senior Scientist, Food & Environment Program, Union of Concerned Scientists

Ricardo with Alliance co-directors Joann & Jose

“The food system operates on the backs of millions of people who have been historically marginalized. The Food Chain Workers Alliance gives them a voice and a way to organize themselves beyond their sector to affect change in the whole food system.”