Elle Mari Email & Phone Number

Community practitioner, advocate, educator, and project director in food systems, health equity, and community development. Over 15 years of experience managing projects in food access, food justice, health promotion, and community development. Demonstrated expertise in community engagement and mobilizing stakeholders in urban food environments for neighborhood-level investment and change. Special skills: neighborhood food retailer transformation, tactical urbanism, urban agriculture viability, teaching, training, facilitation, youth engagement and development, policy advocacy, social marketing, placemaking and placekeeping, and health communications.

Listed skills include Program Development, Community Outreach, Capacity Building, Training, and 26 others.

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  Director, Urban Food Equity

  Uc San Diego Center For Community Health

  May 2014 - Present - San Diego, California

  Research, develop, implement, and direct community food equity strategies and projects in urban San Diego. Current focus on improving neighborhood level healthy food access opportunities via work with small neighborhood cultural food markets and urban farmers. Expertise in building and managing teams, mobilizing community stakeholders, student engagement, food business development and consultation, economic development with ethnically diverse small business owners and neighborhood residents, and urban agriculture market channel development.