Advisory Board
Heather “H” Nieto-Friga is the founder of SupplyChange, a social impact firm based in California and New York that empowers underserved producers by building resilient, regional supply chains for institutional foodservice, co-leading place-based food infrastructure initiatives, and engaging in regional food policy advocacy at the institutional and state levels. With a rich and diverse background in food systems, H’s experience spans food justice organizing with grassroots community groups and Real Food Challenge, farm-to-school and farm-to-institution initiatives, local government programs, and private sector procurement leadership. This eclectic expertise reflects her deep curiosity about dismantling hidden systems of power, and driving transformative change with coalitions built on trust, integrity, imagination, and joy. She has served on the board of Real Food Challenge for five years and is the current board chair. Proudly queer and half-Mexican, H has deep roots in Texas and New Mexico, grew up in California, and currently resides in New York’s Hudson Valley.
Sriram Madhusoodanan is the Director of Policy & Advocacy with US Climate Action Network and co-chairs USCAN's International Policy Committee. He has followed the UN climate treaty negotiations and attended the Conference of the Parties (COP) treaty meetings since COP22 in Bonn, Germany. Prior to this role he worked to advance global climate reparations with Taproot Earth and led food and climate campaigns at Corporate Accountability, melding together organizing, strategic communications, hard-hitting research and movement building. A proud immigrant, his outlook is shaped by a global childhood that brought him to call cities as diverse as Mangalore, India and Tampa, Florida his “hometown”.
Tim Galarneau serves as a co-director of Education and Training with the Center for Economic Justice and Action (CEJA) at the University of California Santa Cruz. Tim’s work advances basic needs efforts across campuses, intersegmental engagement, and nationally. Tim also works with students, producers, chefs, and supply chains across California and beyond to advance regional, seasonal, and small- to mid-scale under invested producer and enterprise relationships across the food system. At the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology, as the Food Systems Program Manager, he oversees a team of staff and students working from the field to the plate in re-envisioning access to delicious and nourishing food for all.
We are looking to expand our Advisory Board.