Across the country, statewide food system plans or charters bring together cross-sector stakeholders to collaborate on complex issues in food and agriculture. This session will offer a chance to hear from several food system plan coordinators in the North Central region on how they cultivate “collaboration infrastructure” to advance goals around local food and farm business, food access, and rural development.

Presenter: Lindsey Scalera, Community Food Systems Collaboration Specialist, Center for Regional Food Systems, Michigan State University

Lindsey Scalera joined Center for Regional Food Systems (CRFS) in 2018 as Community Food Systems Collaboration Specialist. In this position, Lindsey collaborates with partners throughout Michigan to ensure the future of the Michigan Good Food movement is sustainable, inclusive and democratic. Lindsey brings over a decade of facilitation and community-based education experience to her work. In her previous role as Farm to Institution Campaign Director at the Ecology Center, Lindsey served as Michigan Farm to Institution Network co-lead and Regional Organizer for Health Care Without Harm’s Healthy Food in Health Care program from 2016-2018. Lindsey got her start in food systems as co-founder of the Giving Garden and the Michigan Young Farmer Coalition while earning her Master’s Degree in Social Foundations of Education, specializing in EcoJustice Education from Eastern Michigan University.

Register here:  https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArdeyqrjguGt3RPRioATjn2VT…