Colin Dring Bio

Colin Dring, Researcher School of Environment and Sustainability, Royal Roads University Colin Dring (he/his) works towards food system justice and sustainability in collaboration with different change makers. He is a community developer, a facilitator, a researcher, a connector, and is inquisitive by nature. He has over 15 years of experience...
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Jen Cody

Jen Cody Growing food, increasing healthy food access for low income people, building community with people of all abilities and cultures are key values in her work. Food is Medicine, which not only includes the nutrition that food can provide, but also the relationships we have with each other, the …
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Lori Snyder

Lori Snyder Earth Awareness Realized Through Health & Company Lori is an Indigenous herbalist and educator with a deep knowledge of wild, medicinal and edible plants that grow in everyday spaces. She has also collaborated with the Vancouver Parks Board, Douglas Community College, VanDusen Botanical Garden, Village Vancouver, and many...
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Hannah Wittman

Hannah Wittman Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, UBC Dr. Hannah Wittman’s research examines the ways that the rights to produce and consume food are contested and transformed through struggles for agrarian reform, food sovereignty, and agrarian citizenship. Her projects include community-based research on farmland access, transition to organic...
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Mark Vickars

Mark Vickars Past Board Member FarmFolk CityFolk Mark is the former CEO of Choices Markets and has a lifelong commitment to volunteerism, social activism and continuing education. As a retirement gift to himself Mark recently completed the Practicum in Sustainable Agriculture program at UBC Farm. The UBC program re-energized his...
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Elvezio Del Bianca

Elvezio Del Bianco, Program Manager, Co-operative Partnerships Vancity Credit Union As Vancity Credit Union’s Program Manager for Cooperative Partnerships, Elvezio (“Elvy”) Del Bianco works internally on disseminating knowledge of the cooperative business model to increase Vancity’s capacity to support co-ops, and externally on building...
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Allison Felker

Allison Felker, Acting Executive Director, Vancity Community Foundation…
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Heather O’Hara

Heather O’Hara, Executive Director, BC Association of Farmers’ Markets Heather is the Executive Director of the BC Association of Farmers’ Markets and a new organic farmer living on a horse farm in Ladner. As a social entrepreneur and food lover, Heather believes deeply in farmers’ markets and small-scale farms and...
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