Community Food and Agriculture Coalition Membership

CFAC is comprised of members representing these relevant organizations or interests: 

Anti-hunger advocates                  

    - Niraja Golightly recently graduated from the MSW program at UM.  She brings relevant experience as a person with limited income who struggles to navigate necessary social service assistance programs and serves on Montana Women Vote steering committee.

    - Brenda Erdelyi, Pre-Release job coordinator, student researcher for Community Food Assessment

City Council appointee                 

     - Jason Wiener, serves on Public Works, Plat, Annexation and Zoning, and  Administration and Finance committees

County Commissioner appointee                         

   - Bill Carey, former director of Missoula Food Bank, serves on TransportationPolicy coordinating committee

Community education and extension

    - Lou Ann Crowley,  former City Council representative

Farmer/Ranchers

     - Jim Cusker, retired farmer, President of the board of directors for Five Valleys Land Trust, serves on Open Lands Working Group, retired school teacher

    - Josh Slotnick, Garden City Harvest, CSA Farmer, Farmers Market vendor, Poet, Adjunct Professor UM Environmental Studies Department and PEAS

Food processor                              

     - Jon Clarenbach, Le Petit Outre manager, Clark Fork River Market board of directors

Grocery store/Retail food

     - Molly Moody, Missoula Food Co-Op, and North Missoula Community Development Corporation, community organizer

Land conservation                                     

     - Jim Berkey, The Nature Conservancy, formerly with Five Valleys Land Trust

Land use planner                                        

     - Nancy Heil, OPG Rural Initiatives, served on Community Food Assessment

Media and outreach

     - Sarah Bruya, Missoula Cultural Council, former PEAS intern

Nutritionist/public health                         

     - Blakely Brown, University of MT, Health and Human Performance Department, experience conducting clinical trials, community needs and foods assessments and collaborating on research projects with Montana/Wyoming Northern Plains Indian communities, Missoula City/County Maternal Child Health Advisory Board

Realtor/Developer/Housing

     - Shannon Behan, Prudential Missoula realtor

    - Kathy Huber, HomeWORD, housing assistance specialist

Restaurant/Chef          

     - Martha Buser, Catalyst owner and chef, initiated Buy Fresh Buy Local Restaurant collaborative, served on steering committee of Community Food Assessment

University researcher                                

      - Neva Hassanein, University of MT, Environmental Studies Associate Professor    with emphasis on sustainability issues, agriculture and food systems, and social  change, Co-facilitated Community Food Assessment, co-founded CFAC, initiated Farm to College program at UM, serves on Grow Montana, a statewide coalition

At-large members                                              

      - Crissie McMullan, Grow Montana, initiated Farm to College program at UM, Farm        to School program in Missoula, and Food Corps project across Montana, student      researcher for Community Food Assessment, former local yokel

   - Kristen Lee-Charlson, Holistic Moms Network, Edible Missoula publisher, chapter leader of Holistic Moms and   Weston A. Price Foundation, chair of Outreach and Education committee of CFAC