Speakers and Attendees

Clare Fox is a non-profit leader with experience in cross-sector campaigns focused on environmental, health and social justice. She is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Food Policy Council (LAFPC), a non-profit organization with a mission to make food healthy, affordable, sustainable and fair for all. In this role, she partners with a large network of public, private, non-profit and community leaders to change policies that promote ‘Good Food For All’ – the motto of LAFPC. Under Clare’s leadership, LAFPC has grown its partnership network to over 400 food organizations. First joining LAFPC in 2011, she led the organization toward several legislative wins, including universal food stamps at farmer’s markets, the first county urban agriculture program, first citywide food recovery program, decriminalizing street food, and expanding Good Food Purchasing Policy to include Los Angeles World Airports (LAX), City of Los Angeles Greek Theater, and soon the County of Los Angeles, which could impact 37 million meals with local, sustainable, organic and fair food purchases. Clare created the nationally-recognized Healthy Neighborhood Market Network, a program that seeks to eliminate ‘food deserts’ by working with neighborhood businesses to bring fresh food to low-income families, which has trained over 350 entrepreneurs since 2012. In her first career, she was a radio producer at National Public Radio and Youth Radio, where she taught radio and media production to teenagers throughout Los Angeles – from Boyle Heights to Inglewood. She currently serves on Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Los Angeles Promise Zone Leadership Council, the Board of Directors for LA Compost, and was a founding board member of Critical Mass Dance Company. Trained as an urban planner at UCLA with a background in critical race theory, Clare is an adept facilitator and group experience designer and recently served on the trainer team for the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation initiative of Southern California Grantmakers and California Conference for Equality and Justice.