COMMITTEES

Branding and Communications

This is a cross-cutting committee that will provide structure and guidance for internal and external communications on behalf of the SC Food Policy Council.

​

Amy Weaver, Interim

Committee Lead

Food Access and

Insecurity

The committee is dedicated to resolving food inequities through assessment, education, and both local and state-level policy recommendations.

​

​

Weatherly Thomas, Committee Lead

​

Food is Medicine SC

The committee seeks to improve the coordination among organizations working to advance healthy food access within health care settings as well as to both identify and facilitate the adoption of state-level FiM policy and system changes.

​

Amy Weaver, Committee Lead

Click here for more committee details

Planning and Transportation

The committee is centered around the intersection of public health with planning and transportation. The committee will  focus on both food access and physical activity.

​

​

​

Gregory Sprouse, 

Committee Lead

Racial Equity within

the Food System

This is a cross-cutting committee that will guide how racial equity will be centered within the SC Food Policy Council to ensure a more equitable and healthy food system in SC.

​

​

Nikki Seibert Kelley & Amy Weaver, Interim Committee Leads

​

Strengthening Nutrition Assistance Programs

This committee works on nutrition program advocacy and policy change bringing together advocates, users/community members and state administrators.

​

​

​

Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, Committee Lead