Tilth Conference

Conference Schedule

Conference Schedule

Connecting the Dots in Local Food System Advocacy

  • Date: Wednesday, November 18
  • Time: 10:45-12:00 p.m.
  • Speakers: Eowyn Corral, National Sustainable Ag Coalition; Hannah Quigley, National Sustainable Ag Coalition
  • Track: Track 2

Recent federal and state investments in local food supply chains have catalyzed partnerships, programs, and renewed support for strong local food economies. National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and its partnering members will offer a session that reviews recent investments in local food initiatives, the federal policy landscape, and pathways for stakeholder policy advocacy. Attendees will hear directly from community-based organizations that have participated in successful policy campaigns, strengthen their own capacity to identify current campaigns, connect with partners, and build a collective narrative for local food program funding.

About the Speakers

  • Eowyn Corral

    National Sustainable Ag Coalition

    Eowyn (they/she), when not obsessing over where community organizing and building holistic systems meet, can be found with a handwork project, cooking, eating, or growing food. Most recently director of development and programs at Dakota Rural Action and a past NSAC Organizational Council (OC) member, Eowyn has focused on local and regional food systems and sustainable agriculture policy for the last 15 years. Based in the Dakotas, the occupied lands of the Oceti Sakowin Oyate (the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota peoples), Eowyn comes to this work via a love for fiber animals, seasonal foods, and textile arts. As a dedicated grassroots community organizer rooted in justice and equity, Eowyn has been invited to serve in many leadership roles in movement spaces, honing a skill to facilitate what challenges us. Originally from southern California and of Michoacán descent, Eowyn plans to find their way back to the West Coast eventually to raise animals on pasture on a multigenerational farm with their family. At NSAC she works to connect and empower grassroots food and farm groups in NSAC’s membership and the broader movement, supports the coalition’s grassroots campaigns, and stewards the Racial Justice Committee.

  • Hannah Quigley

    National Sustainable Ag Coalition

    Hannah (she/her) holds an M.P.H. from the University of North Carolina and a B.A. from NC State University. North Carolina is where she found her place in food and agriculture and more specifically in the synergies between promoting public health through a regional food economy. Her programmatic work has included designing and managing sliding-scale CSAs and business development resources for food and farm entrepreneurs, while her policy design and advocacy experience rests in farm-to-school, healthy food finance initiatives, capital access, and urban agriculture. Her approach in the work seeks to disrupt power imbalances in policy design and decision-making by centering community voices, particularly those that have been historically displaced or marginalized. She joins NSAC from Richmond, Virginia to staff the Marketing, Food Systems, and Rural Development committee, which focuses on local and regional food systems, farm-to-school, healthy food access, and economic development.