Our Team 3 — Cleveland Cuyahoga County Food Policy Coalition

Structure

In 2017, the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Food Policy Coalition adopted its current structure as a voluntary coalition organized by a Steering Committee. Two Co-Chairs provide leadership to the steering committee. Co-Chairs must serve on the Steering Committee at least one year before being nominated for the role. Nominations for Steering Committee members are solicited during the fall with two-year positions beginning in January of each year. Efforts are made to include representation on the Steering Committee from all aspects of the food system from production to consumption and to include perspectives from different sectors including business, government, education, non-profit, and community residents. The Steering Committee meets six times per year. Standing Committees of the Steering Committee include Membership, Convenings, Advocacy, and Communications. Standing Committees are open to all members of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Food Policy Coalition.

Steering Committee Members

Darcy Freedman, Co-ChaiR

Darcy Freedman, PhD, MPH began her term as Co-Chair of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Food Policy Coalition in January 2017. She is the Mary Ann Swetland Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Director of the Swetland Center for Environmental Health at Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine. Darcy’s research is focused on developing, testing, and disseminating policy and system level interventions to promote health equity by addressing the complex interplay between public health and the environment. She is actively involved in several studies focused on improving access to healthy foods in Cleveland, throughout the state of Ohio, and nationally. She received the 2016 Sarah Samuels Memorial Award by the American Public Health Association recognizing her outstanding contributions to advocacy, policy, and evaluation for public health nutrition.

Nicole burt, Co-Chair

Dr. Nicole Burt is the Curator of Human Health and Evolutionary Medicine at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. As Curator, Dr. Burt is responsible for health education, community outreach on health and health equity, and doing her own research of human diet. She is a Biological Anthropologist whose research focuses on understanding diet and health in modern and archaeological human populations. Her research focuses on questions of diet quality, access, and diets relationship to chronic disease such as obesity. Methodologically she focuses on combining quantitative (such as stable isotope analysis) and qualitative methods to understand what people are eating and what that food means to them. She is connected to the food system and health equity in Cleveland both via her research and her commitment to empowering people in science and health

mike Malley

Mike Malley is Chairman of the family-owned Malley’s Chocolate, Inc., leading operations and personnel across the specialty retailers’ 23 regional stores and manufacturing facility headquartered in Brook Park, Ohio. As grandson of company founder Albert Martin (Mike) Malley, and in partnership with his five siblings, he serves in the third generation of family chocolatiers since its incorporation in 1935. Malley re-joined the family business in 2012 after a progressive 23-year career in the publishing industry. He was Advertising Director and Sales Manager at Crain’s Cleveland Business before returning to chocolate, and previously held multiple executive editorial, publisher-level and sales management positions with Questex Media and Advanstar Communications, Inc. Throughout his career, Malley was recognized for leading innovations in traditional print and electronic media, and for helping business-to-business publications expand their audiences and advertising sales revenue.

Lawrence hall

Lawrence is a Senior Planner for the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA), where he uses transportation to improve quality of life and facilitate economic development. In this role he coordinates the Business Advisory Council as well as the Northeast Ohio Sustainable Communities Consortium. This twelve-county non-profit organization helps local governments, businesses, and other non-profits implement practices to create more vibrant, sustainable, and resilient communities for all residents. Prior to NOACA, Lawrence was an Economic Development Specialist in the Lorain County Community Development Department, where he focused on business creation and attraction, along with community development and brownfield revitalization. A lifelong Northeast Ohioan, Lawrence earned his Bachelor’s Degree from Baldwin-Wallace College followed by his MBA from Case Western Reserve University.

david N. Cavallo

Dr. Cavallo is a behavioral scientist who studies the use of emerging communications technologies to reduce obesity-related mortality and morbidity with an emphasis on cancer. He has expertise in the areas of technology development and the design, implementation, and analysis of behavioral interventions. His current research focuses on behavioral intervention approaches using social media as a means of increasing social support and behavioral modeling for optimal dietary and physical activity behavior. Dr. Cavallo also teaches the two core public health nutrition courses for Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Nutrition.

Daniel ortiz

Daniel Ortiz is the outreach director for Policy Matters Ohio. A native of Lorain, Ohio and graduate of Oberlin College, Ortiz joined Policy Matters in 2016 and brings 14 years’ experience in organizing, campaign strategy and education. Before his work with Policy Matters Daniel worked at the local, state and national level leading campaigns and managing partnerships across the Midwest and the South. Ortiz draws from experience as a teacher, work as an organizer and campaign data professional and experience developing culturally relevant programs to best connect Policy Matters research with the community.

Nicole Debose

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Delpheena FLowers

Delpheena Flowers is the volunteer coordinator at the Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland. She graduated from Central State University with an Associates in Child Development and A Bachelor’s in Social Work. She then returned to Cleveland to work for the Metro Health System as a Child Development Associate in the Pediatrics Department. Currently, Delpheena works with the Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland and finds the position of Volunteer Coordinator very rewarding.

Doreen Schreiber

Doreen Schreiber is currently the Business Recycling Specialist for The Cuyahoga County Solid Waste Management District in Garfield Heights, Ohio. A native Clevelander, she has been in the waste and recycling industry for 12 years. Doreen created a unique free business recycling workshop program that no other solid waste district in Ohio has – “Waste and Recycling $ense for Your Business”. She also is a member of the U.S. Green Business Council, where she is a certified TRUE Advisor, helping take businesses to Zero Waste. Doreen is a member of ZeroWasteNEO where she works on various projects involving zero waste events, plastics reduction, and food rescue. She is also a member of The Ohio Association of Litter Prevention and Recycling Professionals. Doreen has been a featured speaker at various chambers of commerce, The National Organization of Professional Organizers Northeast Ohio Chapter, Association of Ohio Recyclers, and The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business among others. Doreen received both her Bachelor of Science Degree and Master of Science Degree from The Ohio State University. While working with various businesses and seeing healthy edible food being thrown in the trash as many in Northeast Ohio still go hungry, Doreen decided she needed to do something about it. Part of her job focuses on waste reduction, and food waste comprises about 15% of the waste stream. Even with a strong food donation and distribution infrastructure in Northeast Ohio good food still ends up in the trash instead of in the hands of some of the people most in need. Therefore Doreen joined the Food Policy Coalition Steering Committee to affect policy change that will hopefully reduce the amount of edible food being wasted.

Sherita Mullins

Sherita Mullins strongly believes in food equity for all and serves on the Food Policy Coalition to ensure that voices of her community are heard. Professionally, she is the Director of Social Enterprises for Burten, Bell, Carr Development, Inc. She designs and manages social enterprises, which are nonprofit businesses that create jobs or entrepreneurial opportunities as way of addressing social or environmental problems, such as the HHS Healthy Food Financing Initiative awarded to BBC in 2011. She manages grant writing activity and the coordination of neighborhood events. Prior to BBC, She assisted with research and evaluation of community investments for Living Cities: National Community Development Initiative, a New York City-based nonprofit organization that invests in community development. She holds her Master of Science degree in Nonprofit Management and a Dual Bachelor’s Degree in Organizational Studies and Psychology.

Frances Mills

Frances is the Director of Community Health Initiatives with the Cleveland Department of Public Health. She joined the Department in this capacity in 2017. Frances provides leadership and oversight of the Cleveland Office of Minority Health (COMH) and the Healthy Cleveland Initiatives, whose programs inform, educate and empower individuals, organizations and communities on chronic health issues impacting persons of color. She assists in building capacity among health serving organizations and works to improve health disparities, eliminate health inequity and advance health equity in NE Ohio.

Colleen Walsh

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