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Amanda Fessler
Amanda Fessler is an MSU graduate with a B.A. in Sociology. She hailed from Fenton, MI. She joined the Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems in May 2003 as a research and outreach intern. She assisted with 2003 and 2004 Family Nutrition Program projects as they relate to community food systems under the direction of Barb Mutch and Kim Chung. She was promoted to Program Associate in 2004 and worked with Barb Mutch and Mike Hamm in the developmental stages of a food policy council for the state. Amanda compiled the final report for the 2004 Community Food Network funded by the Family Nutrition Program.
Marty Heller
Marty Heller served as a research specialist with projects focusing on using watershed-scale modeling to compare the ecological services provided by pasture-based and confinement-based animal production systems. He also developed Food Connections: Capital Area Community Food Profile, a booklet to frame and communicate ideas of a community-based food system.
hellerm@msu.edu
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Viki Lorraine
Viki Lorraine is an associate program leader with MSU Extension. Viki focuses on the development of regional, state and local level Farm to School programming. This work finds her involved in everything from school gardens to distribution of Michigan-grown foods in Michigan schools. She is also the state coordinator for the nutrition education component of Project FRESH and Senior Project FRESH – Michigan’s Farmers Market Nutrition Programs for WIC participants and older adults. She is also Program Leader on two nutrition education projects: produce markets in churches and youth farm stand development. Before coming to the Mott group, she spent 15 years as a faculty member at Eastern Virginia Medical School developing and implementing outreach programs to improve community health.
lorrainv@michigan.gov
Meagan Shedd
Meagan Shedd is a program leader with MSU Extension in Family and Consumer Sciences. Her work focuses on access and availability of local foods with a primary audience of limited income families. Using social marketing techniques and through community coalitions, she provides support for nutrition education for families, and encourages community involvement to precipitate change in how families access nutritious foods. She is also interested in nutrition as an indicator of school readiness in preschool aged children, and the role of literacy in nutrition education.
mshedd@msu.edu
Celeste Starks
Celeste joined the Mott Group in October 2005 as a specialist after spending nine years with the Center for Urban Affairs. In her work with the group, she met with MSU Extension partners, Michigan Youth Farmstand coordinators, and coalitions across the state for the Earned Income Tax Credit outreach project. She had the opportunity to attend, moderate or present at theGrowing Power Conference, Choices Conference, National Tax Coalition Conference and Affordable Housing Conference, further enriching her work experience with the Mott Group.
Debby Williams
Debby Williams was hired while working on her bachelor’s degree in Horticulture. While studying full-time Debby assisted with the Animals in the Food System Conference. Following her May 2005 graduation from MSU, she worked with us as an outreach specialist during summer and fall, establishing the Michigan farmers’ market website (www.farmersmarkets.msu.edu) and organizing rapid market assessments with farmers markets in Zeeland, Gaylord, Saginaw and Flint. Debby is highly skilled in technology in addition to her love for and ability to grow fruits and vegetables. Debby relocated to Chicago and spent her first summer working on an urban community garden project. williamsdeb@sbcglobal.net
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