ANDY FISHER

Andy Fisher has been a leading force in the food security and food justice movement for the past 25 years, starting and leading the main national alliance on food systems, the Community Food Security Coalition until 2011. He led campaigns to gain passage of federal legislation that has brought over $200 million to community groups nationwide for food security and farm to school projects. In 2017, he authored an exposé of the hunger industrial complex, “Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups. (2017).” He currently teaches at local universities and serves as a consultant from his home in Portland Oregon.