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Texas Sustainable & Inclusive Food System Coalition

Our food system is in crisis.  Farmers and food businesses are struggling.  5 million Texans live in food deserts. Vulnerable groups like women and people-of-color are disproportionately affected. The food system is responsible for a third of greenhouse gas emissions and Texas is one of the worst affected states when it comes to climate change. There are no simple fixes to this complex challenge. Our coalition convenes leaders who bring tested approaches from their respective fields that form a comprehensive solution puzzle that centers around transformational technologies like blockchain and OIT. Our coalition is creating an enabling ecosystem to bring these technologies and approaches to farmers and businesses along the food value chain, with special focus on those marginalized.   As a result they can become more productive, competitive, profitable and resilient.  As a recent study concluded, “inclusive food systems can help break the inter-generational cycle of poverty, hunger and malnutrition.” 

Founding Members

FinTech4Good 

Representative: Xiaochen Zhang, President

Role: global transformative technology expert network, accelerator and financing platform and new digital infrastructure 


EarthPeople Media 

Representative: Anna Clark, President 

Role: Awareness raising, sustainability communication, collective action convenings and facilitation


Inclusive Economy Consortium

Representative: Anna Clark, Co-Founder

Role: convening key stakeholders, program coordination across stakeholders and coalition partners


Global Inclusive Economy Society 

Representative: Dr. Debra Perry, Co-Founder

Role: Global experts of blended finance, sustainable inclusive food systems & best practice databases


Methodist Church Network

Representative: Dr. Robert Hunt

Role: partners in communities across Texas. Hosts of demonstration projects, training and incubator programs


Hunt Institute for Engineering & Humanity, Lyle School of Engineering, SMU 

Representative: Dr. Eva Szalkai Csaky, Executive Director

Role: manages the food system social enterprise program and toolbox, supports early stage innovation and manages a local expert network


Dr. Jessie Zarazaga 

Role: GIS Mapping/analysis, Sustainable Inclusive Design


Caruth Institute for Engineering Education, Lyle School of Engineering, SMU

Representatives: 

Youth STEM Education: Dr. Richard Duschl

Adult STEM Education: Dr. DeeDee Conway

Role: STEM education


Veteran Women’s Enterprise Center 

VR Small, President

Role: incubator, entrepreneur support


Impact Ventures 

Representative: Benjamin J. Vann 

Role: incubator, entrepreneur support


Forward Planning Food Business Incubation

Representative: Doric Earl

Role: incubator, entrepreneur support


Youth Social Enterprise Program 

Representative: Dr. Candice Bledsoe

Role: youth entrepreneur incubator & support


Noble Profit 

Amy Seidman, CEO

Role. BFlo technology, which  - Blockchain for social impact platform, the only technology of its kinds able to track environmental and social

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