The Florida Food Policy Council (FLFPC) is guided by a statewide team of community leaders, educators, data experts, and advocates dedicated to building a fair, healthy, and sustainable food system for all Floridians. Together, they bring decades of experience in food justice, land access, climate resilience, and community-driven policy—bridging research, organizing, and on-the-ground action.
Erica Hall - Chair of the Board
Erica.H@flfpc.org
The Florida Food Policy Council (FLFPC) is guided by a statewide team of community leaders, educators, data experts, and advocates dedicated to building a fair, healthy, and sustainable food system for all Floridians. Together, they bring decades of experience in food justice, land access, climate resilience, and community-driven policy—bridging research, organizing, and on-the-ground action.
Erica “Erahyah” Hall, M.S. CED, MBA, ARM
Executive Director & Board Chair
Erica “Erahyah” Hall, M.S. CED, MBA, ARM, is a nationally respected strategist, community advocate, and thought leader advancing racial justice, food sovereignty, and climate resilience. She brings over two decades of experience across law, nonprofit management, and community development—connecting food, land, energy, and housing systems through a justice-centered lens. As Executive Director and Board Chair of FLFPC, Erica leads the Council’s evolution from a grassroots volunteer network into a statewide hub for policy advocacy and coalition building. Her leadership integrates land justice, energy equity, and right-to-food frameworks into the Council’s core programs, helping local governments, coalitions, and researchers align policy with lived experience. Erica also serves nationally as Vice President of Chapters, Groups & Volunteers and Executive Committee member of the National Board of Directors of the Sierra Club, where she centers equity, mental health, and volunteer wellness. A 2025 Vanguard Fellow (Green Leadership Trust), Right to Food Learning and Action Fellow, and Lawyers for Good Government Leadership Program Fellow, she bridges national policy and grassroots leadership. Her broader collaborations include the Highland Project Dream Keeper Fund, Legacy Community Land Trust Blueprint, and Storm Squad, a Tampa Bay–based climate resilience initiative with the University of South Florida CRIS-HAZARD Lab. Erica also serves as a CBPR consultant on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Food Justice Project with Brown University, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Temple University, contributing to the nation’s first database tracking structural racism in food law. A Senior Fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program, USDA grant reviewer, and long-time advocate of youth, farmers, and policy innovation, Erica continues to build bridges across academia, philanthropy, and community networks to realize the vision of a just food system for all.
Areas of Focus:
Food and Land Justice · Community-Based Research · Policy and Governance · Climate and Energy Equity · Right to Food and Food as Medicine.
Networks & Affiliations:
Sierra Club (National Board & ExCom) · Green Leadership Trust · INFAS (At-Large Executive Committee) · North American Food Systems Network (NAFSN) · Food Systems Leadership Network (FSLN) · Lawyers for Good Government · Highland Project · Storm Squad · Vital Village / RWJF Food Justice Project
Anthony Olivieri, MURP, GIS
Board Member & GIS Mapping and Food Systems Consultant
Anthony Olivieri is a community food systems planner, educator, and data equity advocate whose work bridges spatial analysis, public health, and environmental justice. As both a Board Member and GIS Mapping and Food Systems Consultant for FLFPC, Anthony leads the Council’s GIS Mapping and Data Equity Project, using geographic information systems (GIS) to visualize food access, health disparities, and environmental risk zones across Florida. He is the founder of FHEED LLC (Food for Health, the Environment, Economy & Democracy), a consulting firm specializing in food and health disparity mapping, healthy food access program design, and technical assistance for community-led food planning. Through FHEED, he partners with public agencies, universities, and grassroots organizations to make data more democratic—helping communities see and shape their own food system realities. A Master’s graduate in Urban and Regional Planning with a Certificate in GIS from Florida Atlantic University, Anthony previously taught as a full-time instructor in FAU’s School of Urban and Regional Planning, where he developed and led the region’s first Community Food Systems course. His mapping work supports FLFPC’s community food assessments, listening sessions, and right-to-food advocacy, helping transform research into policy action. Originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a Fort Lauderdale resident since 1998, Anthony holds a B.A. in Psycholinguistics from the University of Southern California.
Areas of Focus:
GIS Mapping · Food Systems Planning · Data Equity · Environmental Justice · Community Assessment
Networks & Affiliations:
Founder, FHEED LLC · Florida Atlantic University (School of Urban and Regional Planning) · FLFPC GIS Data Equity Project · South Florida Regional Planning Association · Community Food Systems Educators Network
Stacy Brown, M.S.
Board Treasurer & Community Engagement and Education Coordinator
Stacy Brown, M.S., is an environmental educator and nonprofit leader with over fifteen years of experience designing programs that connect youth, families, and communities to food, science, and sustainability. As Board Treasurer and Community Engagement and Education Coordinator for FLFPC, she combines strategic leadership with hands-on outreach—helping build resilient, food-literate communities across Florida. Stacy holds both her Master of Science and Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology from Nova Southeastern University, where she developed her passion for environmental education. Her career spans educational, environmental, and religious nonprofits, where she has cultivated strong community partnerships and trained a new generation of environmental stewards.
As Program Manager at the Urban Farming Institute, Stacy led youth and family food programs throughout Broward County, launching STEAM field trips, after-school programs, and summer camps focused on food and environmental literacy. In 2019, she founded Coral Rangers, a marine biology initiative that trains students to earn Open Water SCUBA certifications and engage in coral reef restoration.
Stacy also leads The All Community Garden in Dania Beach, a project with NFL Sisters in Service, combining community gardening, food forestry, and education to address food insecurity in Dania Beach, Hollywood, and Liberia. Since joining FLFPC in 2021, Stacy has spearheaded community food assessments, listening sessions, and town hall meetings, ensuring residents’ voices guide statewide food policy.
Areas of Focus:
Community Engagement · Environmental Education · Urban Agriculture · Youth Development · Food Literac
Networks & Affiliations:
Urban Farming Institute · Coral Rangers · NFL Sisters in Service · Nova Southeastern University · Broward County Food System Coalition · FLFPC Community Food Assessments
Erica “Zenzele” Hardison
Board Vice Chair
Erica “Zenzele” Hardison has spent more than twenty years building cooperative, community-centered solutions across food, housing, health, and education in St. Petersburg and beyond. Her leadership is rooted in a simple goal: making life better for all people through collaboration, sustainability, and self-determination. As Board Vice Chair of FLFPC, Erica strengthens partnerships across Tampa Bay and the Gulf Coast, connecting policy advocacy with grassroots organizing. She also serves as Lead Steward and Board President of One Community Grocery Co-op, leading efforts to establish a community-owned grocery store in South St. Petersburg that reclaims food access and economic agency for historically marginalized residents. Erica’s background as an educator, small business owner, and community organizer gives her a unique ability to design solutions that are both visionary and practical. Her work links food sovereignty and cooperative economics with local resilience planning, ensuring that community-led models drive Florida’s food future.
Areas of Focus:
Cooperative Development · Food Sovereignty · Community Organizing · Economic Empowerment · Equity and Inclusion
Networks & Affiliations:
One Community Grocery Co-op (Board President) · FLFPC Board of Directors · South St. Petersburg Community Redevelopment Partnership · Tampa Bay Urban Agriculture Network · Florida Cooperative Empowerment Coalition
Together
The Florida Food Policy Council’s leadership team represents the spectrum of Florida’s food system—from grassroots gardens to data analytics, from policy advocacy to youth education. Their collective work unites science, storytelling, and social justice to create lasting change. Through their vision and collaboration, FLFPC continues to build a Florida where every community has the right—and the resources—to grow, share, and thrive.
https://www.floridafpc.org/Our-Programs
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Other Activities and Accomplishments
Beyond its formal programs, FLFPC provides technical assistance in grant writing, fundraising, and capacity building to members and partners across the state. Notable leadership recognitions include:
https://www.righttofoodus.org/learning-action-cohort
https://greenleadershiptrust.org/vanguardfellows/
https://greenleadershiptrust.org/about-us/
https://psequity.org/just-energy/
https://bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/watermark/65972b5ccff47e0001fe0a75
https://www.vitalvillage.org/projects/community-food-systems-fellowship
Anthony Olivieri - Chair of the Development Committee
Anthony.O@flfpc.org
Anthony Olivieri, the founder of FHEED LLC (Food for Health, the Environment, Economy & Democracy), has a Masters in Urban & Regional Planning from FAU (2011) with a focus on community food systems, and a certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). His specialties are geographic assessments of food and health disparities, program design for healthy food access initiatives, and public speaking about health equity. In addition to his consultancy, Anthony was a full-time instructor with the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida Atlantic University, where he developed and taught the region’s first urban planning course on community food systems (2014-2016). A Fort Lauderdale resident since 1998, Anthony is originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts and has a B.A. in psycholinguistics from the University of Southern California (1994).
Dell DeChant - Chair of the Policy Committee
Dell.D@flfpc.org
Dell deChant is the Associate Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida. He is a Master Instructor and has served at USF since 1986. The author of three books, over 30 articles in professional publications, and chapters in twelve books, his specialization is religion and contemporary cultures. His current research focuses on religious, literary, and ecological expressions of Agrarianism as they manifest in American popular culture. He is Chair of the Environmental Committee of the City of New Port Richey, a founding member of Food Policy Council of Pasco County, a member of the Florida Food Policy Council, and a member of the Board of Directors of Ecology Florida.
Stacy Brown - Board Member
Stacy.B@flfpc.org
Over the past 15 years, Stacy received her Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology from Nova Southeastern University, has served in various capacities on nonprofit boards and has worked with educational, environmental, and religious nonprofit groups. A few central themes exist in all her non-profit work: Making our communities more connected, teaching our residents to grow their own food and enabling our citizen scientists to save our environment. Her hard work and experience with science and event programming allowed her to establish STEAM field trips, after school programs and summer camps and to manage Urban Farming Institutes’ programming to better serve the children of Broward County. In 2019 she began a marine biology education initiative, Coral Rangers, which helps local students to gain their open water SCUBA Certification and teaches them to be environmental stewards for our coral reefs. In 2021 Stacy began coordinating a new community garden project, The All Community Garden, in Dania Beach, Florida for NFL Sisters in Service. The new garden concept will help ease food insecurity in Broward County through the development of a community garden and food forest concept to demonstrate food growing techniques to the residents of Dania Beach, Hollywood and Liberia. Stacy joined FLFPC in 2021 to serve the greater Florida community in decreasing food scarcity and to empower community members across Florida to grow their own food and to create a more resilient environment.
Erica Hardison - Board Member
Erica.Hardison@flfpc.org
Erica Hardison has worked in St. Petersburg for over 20 years to help develop sustainable change in many areas including food/agriculture, education, healthcare, and housing. She brings her foundational goal - making the lives of all people better through sustainable, cooperative and collaborative development - to every project. Presently she serves as the board president for One Community Grocery Co-op, a start-up cooperatively-owned grocery store in St. Pete’s Southside neighborhood. Through her experience as an educator, a small business owner, and a community organizer - she has honed her natural ability to solve problems and think logically, creatively, and globally, while acting locally.
