JUST BIPOC SOURCING - Key Persons
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- Associate Director
- Associate Director at the Lexicon
Alberto is the Associate director at The Lexicon. He leads impact campaigns and multi-stakeholder complex projects collaborating with both private and public organizations, leveraging evidence-based storytelling, collaborative approaches and design to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our food systems. Philosopher and economist by background and designer by training, Alberto is an expert in open Innovation approaches and methodologies like Lean Startup, Design Thinking, and Service design.
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- Eater / Consumer 1
- Eater / Consumer 2
- Eater / Consumer 3
- Eater / Consumer 4
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- Regional Sustainability Manager, Sodexo
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- Fuller Consulting / Member
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- Co - Executive Director, Mandela Partners
Ciara joined Mandela Partners in 2018 to address competing food access and economic challenges - ensuring fair pricing for farmers who grow sustainably while simultaneously keeping the cost of healthy food affordable in underserved communities. Since then, she has led the growth of the organization's food access initiatives and farmer network. In her role as co-executive director, she will continue to deepen Mandela Partners' cross-sector partnerships and programs, and cultivate pathways for asset and wealth building in limited resource communities of color. Ciara grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and has lived in the Bay Area for over 15 years. She holds a B.A. in Feminist Studies from Stanford University and a M.A. in Geography from the University of Texas at Austin.
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- Chief
- Co - Founder
- Co - Founder, the Lexicon
Douglas is an award-winning information architect, filmmaker, photographer and writer.
He directed the KNOW YOUR FOOD series for PBS and GROWING ORGANIC for USDA, MOLOTOV ALVA for HBO, and has authored two books, SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town, and LOCAL: The New Face of Food and Farming in America.
He is also one of Crop Trust's Food Forever champions and a visiting professor in the Masters Program at Slow Food's University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy.
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- Project Coordinator at the Lexicon
- Project Coordinator, a Greener Blue
Grace Gilbakian is a project coordinator at The Lexicon. Using her passion for food and farming, Grace oversees the internship program and works to facilitate the A Greener Blue Lexicon Lab. Grace earned her BA in environmental arts and humanities and religious studies from Sewanee: The University of the South in 2021, specializing in the intersection between religion and climate. She resides in Atlanta, Georgia, and is an avid home baker.
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- Owner, ALD & Y Organic Farm
I've spent most of my life on a farm starting with my parents' farm in Oaxaca Mexico. When I moved to the United States I continued to work in agriculture. I started in the least valued position, farm labor. Over time I learned about the opportunity to establish my own business through organic farming and completed a training program at ALBA, Agriculture and Land Based Training Association. My journey has been one of transformation and I believe food systems have the power to transform places and communities. Today I operate my own small farm where I integrate regenerative farming practices. I work for the well-being and integrity of all people. My dream is that not people who are well off financially can buy organic food- everyone deserves to eat nutrient-rich vegetables that are cultivated using processes that care for the natural environment.
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- Value Chain Strategist, Kitchen Table Advisors
Heather Frambach was instrumental in putting together the BIPOC Sourcing Pilot with Good Eating Company. She put together this BIPOC Sourcing toolkit with the help of the Advisory Board. Heather has an eclectic food systems background across service jobs, farmers market management, organizing, local government food policy, nonprofit farm-to-school work, and as a procurement director for Blue Apron and Imperfect Foods. Within REGEN1, she represents Kitchen Table Advisors, building power and developing supply chains with small and midsize farmers via value chain coordination in Northern California.
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- Independent Strategic Advisor
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- Good Food Foundation / Member
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- Global Sustainability Director, Compass at Google
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- Chief Strategy and Brand Officer, Bon Appétit
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- Feeding the Future, Trilogy Beef Community Member
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- Culinary Director, Good Eating Company
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- VP Specialty Supply Chain, Aramark
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- Director of Ecological Benefits
Philip Ackerman-Leist is Director of Ecological Benefits and leads the Meat US activator at The Lexicon. A food systems and sustainability expert, researcher, academic, and farmer specializing in American Milking Devon cattle. His three books include A Precautionary Tale: How One Small Town Banned Pesticides, Preserved its Food Heritage, and Inspired a Movement; Rebuilding the Foodshed; and Up Tunket Road: The Education of a Modern Homesteader.
Previously, Philip spent two decades as Professor of Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems at Green Mountain College, where he built the nation's first online graduate program in food systems, an undergraduate program in Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems, and a 23 acre organic farm. He lives on his family's off-grid homestead in Pawlet, Vermont.
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- Head of Digital
- Lexicon 's Head of Digital
Pier Giorgio Provenzano is The Lexicon's Head of Digital and lead Animator and Video Editor. Based near Bristol, England, his projects include a short film series for PBS, music videos for Napster, a feature-length documentary for HBO, several animated shorts for Warner Brothers and Toyota, short films for Sustainable Food Trust, and GrowEatGather, which showcases British farmers and their role in producing good sustainable food.
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- Project Coordinator, a Greener Blue
Proscovia Alando is a social entrepreneur passionate about food and nutrition security in Africa. She is a food systems leader at African Food Fellowship, the founder of Samaky Hub - an aquaculture consultancy start-up targeting fish farmers, and the co-founder at Ressect - a start-up specialized in farming black soldier fly (BSF) insects as an alternative protein source in animal feed formulation. Proscovia also works as the Regional East African Director at SUSTAIN Switzerland GmbH where she is responsible for coordination and management of aquaculture projects together with SUSTAIN employees and clients. She is a One Young world Ambassador and a firm believer in women and youth empowerment as a catalyst to societal growth.
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- Sustainability and Marketing Manager, Artisan Restaurant Collection
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- Project Manager, a Greener Blue
- Specialist and Project Manager at the Asian Seafood Improvement Collaborative
Trini Pratiwi is an aquaculture specialist and Project Manager at the Asian Seafood Improvement Collaborative (ASIC). She manages place-based improvement programs for Asian seafood producers towards sustainability verification and provide direct market access.
White Oak Pastures is Radically Traditional Farming. Every day, we butcher meat from animals raised in a regenerative manner using humane animal management practices. This is no easy task, but it is our passion. To operate our vertically integrated, zero-waste model, it takes 155+ caring people working together to accomplish a common goal: taking care of our land and our livestock.