Florida Food Policy Council

The Florida Food Policy Council (FLFPC) creates opportunities to collaborate, celebrate, and advance equitable food policies to improve quality of life. The FLFPC builds a culture of health rooted in equity through food justice. By connecting the community to their food and the food system, we can place well-being at the center of every aspect of life. We are a grassroots organization based on community engagement and action. We bring together system leaders, experts, and community members to discuss their issues and provide resources for them to find solutions. This is done through Community Events for data collection. Community Events include virtual and in-person forums, podcasts, and tabling at events to provide education and outreach. Erica Hall, Executive Director and Board Chair has a multi-disciplinary background as a community economic development practitioner; community organizer; environmental justice advocate; board member; justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) facilitator/trainer/consultant; and senior legal professional who organizes around issues related to intersectional environmentalism while exploring the connection between sustainability, resiliency, food waste, climate change, food insecurity, the built form and placemaking, economic resilience, racial/social justice and equity, housing diversity, and affordability. Erica has organized at the federal, state, and local levels in NYC, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Atlanta, and now throughout Florida. Erica is currently the Board Chair/Executive Director of the Florida Food Policy Council, a statewide food policy council which creates opportunities to collaborate, celebrate, and advance equitable food policies to improve quality of life while working to explore and address gaps in the food system in Florida. Erica is also an Executive Committee Member of the Suncoast Sierra Club and Florida Chapter Sierra Club Executive Committee Vice Chair. Erica is active in the US Green Building Council (USGBC), American Planning Association, and other environmental and community based organizations working in urban agriculture, food advocacy, and policy, community engagement, nonprofit management, board development, environmental, racial, social and climate justice, neighborhood revitalization, historic preservation, and community economic development.