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Community Food Systems Fellowship

Erica Hall was selected for the 2025 Right to Food Learning and Action Fellows Program which supports community-led efforts to codify the right to food in programs, practice, law, and/or policy at the local and state levels. The Right to Food Learning and Action Fellows Program is administered by the National Right to Food Community of Practice. https://www.righttofoodus.org/learning-action-cohortThe Green Leadership Trust (GLT), a cross-sector network of Black, Indigenous and people of color who serve as board members for environmental organizations and foundations, selection as a member its 2025 Cecil Corbin-Mark Vanguard Fellows.
https://greenleadershiptrust.org/vanguardfellows/
https://greenleadershiptrust.org/about-us/Just Energy Academy cohort - is a 7- month leadership development program that encourages the further understanding of racial justice in the Clean Energy Transition and an Equitable Energy Future. Geared toward new professionals, career transitioners, and municipal leaders who want to advance their community’s resiliency, understanding of energy, and advocacy strategies. https://psequity.org/
https://psequity.org/just-energy/Member of the 2025 Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG) Leadership Program, which consists of legal professionals committed to engaging in legislative advocacy in their home state. https://www.lawyersforgoodgovernment.org/leadership-2025JAFSCD Journal - Also, please see my submission to JAFSCD, “Crafting a grassroots introduction to food policy course,” which has been published online at the JAFSCD website, https://FoodSystemsJournal.org.Also, please see my published article in the book written by Whitney and Will, Food Insecurity. My piece starts on Page 234. It is downloadable since it is a large textbook/file.https://bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/watermark/65972b5ccff47e0001fe0a75Finally, Erica Hall has been selected as a CBPR consultant on a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Food Justice project with Vital Village who is working with a team of researchers and advocates with Brown University School of Public Health, Boston Children’s Hospital and Temple University’s Center for Public Health Law Research to modify an existing state-level structural racism database to better capture state laws relevant to food (in)justice for Black, Indigenous, and other people of color communities. This role will involve collaborating with a cross-disciplinary team on the development of this state-level structural racism database to ensure that food in(justice) laws are documented and integrated.
https://www.vitalvillage.org/projects/community-food-systems-fellowship