Bio:

CAROLYN WEBB has worked for the Coalition for Healthy School Food as Knowledge Mobilization Coordinator since 2018. She also currently works as Program Director for Farm to Cafeteria Canada and helped bring to life and continues to support the Indigenous School Food Circle. In all of her roles Carolyn works to support individuals and organizations to share resources, ideas, and experience, work together on advocacy, and facilitate efforts to support children and youth in eating, growing, cooking, celebrating, and learning about healthy, local and sustainably produced food. 

SUE-ANNE BANKS is a passionate advocate for Indigenous school food and food systems and coordinates the national Indigenous School Food Circle with Farm to Cafeteria Canada and the Coalition for Healthy School Food. She sits on multiple boards and advisories supporting Indigenous school food and food systems. She is a multidisciplinary student and is completing her MA in Leadership program at Royal Roads University. In her various roles, she emphasizes the importance of decolonizing and Indigenizing food systems and other relevant conversations and spaces.

SARAH KEYES, brings years of project management, policy, and advocacy experience. As the Ontario Lead at the Coalition for Healthy School Food, she’s working to strengthen school food programs in Ontario and Canada. At Farm to Cafeteria Canada, she is helping create a School Food and Food Education Training Hub to help build educators’ capacity to teach about food and food systems. With a Master’s in Environmental Studies and a background in running hands-on, community-based food education programs for children, youth and adults, Sarah loves working with partners across the country towards positive social and food systems change.

SÉBASTIEN DESAULNIERS is the coordinator of the “Collectif québécois”, the Quebec Chapter of the Coalition for Healthy School Food. Sébastien previously worked for fifteen years in a variety of capacities with the Breakfast Club of Canada. Driven by a constant desire to innovate and put school nutrition at the service of communities, Sébastien skillfully navigates the various networks that shape the sector. In this session, he will describe the Collectif’s work and what makes the Chantier PASUQ such an inspiring and unique approach.

CARLA VERVILLE joined the Yukon Food for Learning Association as a Board member and Treasurer in 2023. In the last year, she took on the coordination of grants for nutrition programs for Yukon public schools, and has recently stepped in as Executive Director. A lifelong Yukoner, her background is in government financial administration, and she specializes in public sector procurement.

JOSHUA SMEE is the CEO of Food First NL, a provincial nonprofit organization that works with communities across Newfoundland & Labrador to advance the right to food and to further their vision of a province where everyone can eat with joy and dignity. Passionate about systems change and the power of collective action, Joshua has taken a lead role in many coalitions and campaigns. He co-chairs the provincial Food Security Working Group with the Government of NL, helped launch the new NL Anti-Poverty Coalition, and sat on the province’s Health Accord Task Force.   Outside of work, Joshua sits on many boards and committees and has been heavily engaged in work around civic engagement, local food, and the arts.