Food Policy Catalyst: A Shared Vision for Healthier Communities in collaboration with State and Local Organizations

Become a Food Policy Catalyst partner. The Center for Science in the Public Interest is waging campaigns in states across the U.S. to promote a shared vision for healthier communities in collaboration with state and local organizations.

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Chanelle Brown serves as Senior Manager, Equity and Leadership at Children’s Council of San Francisco. Her work touches policy, community engagement and leadership development for child care providers and community stakeholders. Chanelle dually serves as a founding Village Leader for Black Child Development Institute, San Francisco. She is passionate about activating coalitions and empowering children and families. She is a proud alum of Howard University with a B.A. in Telecommunications Management.

Kris Coffield is the Policy and Advocacy Associate at Hawaiʻi Public Health Institute, where he works to advance policies that improve food security, financial wellness, and public health outcomes for Hawai‘i’s people.

Nate Hix is the Director of Policy and Advocacy at Hawaiʻi Public Health Institute, where he works to improve food accessibility throughout the state. He’s actively working towards increasing food access for low-income residents and on other policies impacting social determinants of health.

Apollo Woods is a cultural entrepreneur and advocate who uses supplier diversity, storytelling, and land stewardship to close wealth and health gaps in Oklahoma. Through the Bigger Than Food Foundation’s supplier diversity campaigns, he works with public agencies, anchor institutions, and brands to direct more procurement dollars into Black-owned and locally owned businesses. As founder of Growing For Good Farm, a 13-acre regenerative farm in Spencer, Oklahoma, he grows culturally relevant, chemical-free crops while building farm-based enterprises with neighborhood residents. His work links equitable contracts, cultural enterprise, and community agriculture to expand food access in long-disinvested neighborhoods and demonstrate a reproducible model for community-led economic revitalization.

Former Director of Legislative Affairs

Philip Kahn-Pauli (he, him, his) was CSPI's Director of Legislative Affairs from April 2024 through February 2026. He served as CSPI’s lead lobbyist and develops strategic policy objectives. He also led and oversaw legislative, advocacy, and outreach activities to achieve CSPI’s federal campaign goals on a variety of issues.

November/December 2025

Kaitlyn Harper is a Professional Researcher in the Department of Nutrition at UC Davis. Her research focuses on building equitable and sustainable food systems, and she uses community-engaged and justice-focused approaches to address issues of food and nutrition insecurity and wasted food in the United States. She is also co-chair of the Food Security Work Group at the Nutrition & Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network (NOPREN). She holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, a MS in Population and Public Health from University of British Columbia, and a MA in Urban Education from Loyola Marymount University.

Senior Science Content Associate

Maddy Bennett is the Senior Science Content Associate at CSPI and writes for Nutrition Action. She studied nutrition science at The University of Texas at Austin and at Tufts University. She enjoys painting second-rate portraits and reading books in her free time.