Meet Oakland Food Policy Council Intern Lexi Hudson

Oakland Food Poli... Mon, 14 Jun at 11:55am

Meet OFPC Intern Lexi Hudson

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Lexi Hudson, native Davisite, current Berkeley student and resident, has been with the OFPC since January 2010. Since joining the intern team, Lexi worked on the Policy Scan and is currently assembling a data-oriented narrative of the Oakland food system for the Strategic Plan. Lexi's work for the OFPC is mainly with the Data Management and Neighborhood Innovations subgroups, interfacing between these council members and the intern team. Lexi is a very recent graduate of UC Berkeley (with a degree in Political Economy)! Lexi will be around the Bay this summer, hopefully continuing her work with the council, meanwhile continuing her apprenticeship program at Alemany Farm, job-hunting, taking soul-searching and poison oak-free hikes and bike rides in the hills, and spending much of her new-found free time in the ceramics studio making knobby coffee mugs and unintentionally inch-thick plates.

About Oakland Food Policy Council
The mission of the Oakland Food Policy Council (OFPC) is to establish an equitable and sustainable food system in Oakland, California. The OFPC will: * Strive to ensure access to healthy, affordable food within walking distance of every Oakland resident; * Bring underserved neighborhoods to the food policy table and increase “food literacy” among Oakland residents; * Put food, hunger, and food systems on the City of Oakland’s agenda and contribute to the national dialog on food policy; * Turn the Oakland food system into an engine for local economic development and involve local and regional agricultural communities.