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Featured Speaker Series
In August of 2020, SOFSA launched a quarterly Featured Speaker Series which provides the opportunity for the network of partners to learn from one another as well as from food system innovators outside of Onondaga County. Check out our archive of past featured speakers below and reach out to info@syrfoodalliance.org if you’d like to share your work at an upcoming gathering!
January 2023 Featured Speaker
Rhonda Vesey
Food Access Healthy Neighborhoods Now! (FAHNN!)
Food Access Healthy Neighborhoods Now! (FAHNN!)
October 2022 Featured Speaker
Ethan Tyo
AlterNative Project
AlterNative Project
June 2022 Featured Speaker
Amanda Vitale (CNY Regional Market Authority) & Toni Emmi (Emmi Farms)
April 2022 Featured Speaker
Rapid Strategic Design Process led by Maura Ackerman (SOFSA) & Scott Emery (M.S. Hall & Associates)
January 2022 Featured Speaker
Gabrielle DiDomenico (Seven Valleys Health Coalition) & Jesse Kerns (SU Center for Sustainable Community Solutions)
October 2021 Featured Speaker
Johan Matthews
Cooperative Fund of New England
Cooperative Fund of New England
June 2021 Featured Speaker
Brandy Colebrook
Refugee & Immigrant Self-Empowerment
Refugee & Immigrant Self-Empowerment
April 2021 Featured Speaker
Andrew Radin
Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency
Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency
January 2021 Featured Speaker
Larkin Podsiedlik & Jessi Lyons
Brady Market
Brady Market
October 2020 Featured Speaker
Angela Ferguson
Onondaga Nation Farm