About

Our Mission

We believe universal access to healthy, nutritious food is a fundamental human right. Nourish Colorado is transforming Colorado’s food system to ensure all Coloradans have equal and abundant access to nutritious foods from sustainable sources. Through advocacy for better policies, statewide initiatives, and partnerships with communities, and statewide and national organizations, Nourish Colorado is creating a new food paradigm. We’re actively challenging the status quo and championing a future-forward food system that equitably feeds and nourishes ALL Coloradans.

Our Guiding Values

1. Access to nourishing food is a basic human right.
2. A person’s ability to feed themselves and their households all the nourishing food they want should not be determined by economic conditions, race or ethnicity, or where they live.
3. Food systems must be transformed to work best for those who have been and are intentionally marginalized in order to create lasting and sustainable change for all.

Our Commitments

Including the voices and elevating the roles of those that our work aims to benefit

One example: We prioritize participant involvement in the Double Up Food Bucks Advisory Team and the Community Food Advocate initiative, which strengthened our programming while expanding professional opportunities for participants.

Seeking the knowledge, guidance, and partnership of local, state, and national organizations

One example: We actively participate in national and Colorado coalitions such as the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, the Blueprint to End Hunger’s work groups and policy committees, and the Colorado Food Policy Network to learn from local food groups.

Employing solutions that are informed by research evidence as well as by community

One example: We contract with external evaluators and integrate in-person and virtual feedback sessions (symposia, interviews, focus groups) with core partners and beneficiaries in all our initiatives.

Testing and trying new solutions

One example: When provided state funds to purchase CO-grown produce for federal food assistance program participants, we mobilized with county partners and local growers to launch the CO Nutrition Incentive program in a matter of weeks, purchasing several hundred CSA shares for WIC households and older adults across the state.

Being adaptive and responsive in our work

One example: We have adapted former initiatives such as the School Food Initiative to build LoProCO to meet the needs and goals of partners, and have adapted curricula throughout COVID to be the most accessible, whether in-person or virtually.

Working ourselves out of our jobs

One example: We pursue means to permanently integrate our initiatives with institutional and agency partners, such as incentives and support for new Farm to School staff within the Department of Education to ensure our work lives on beyond us.

Ensuring that our decisions, actions, and allocation of resources contribute to an equitable, multicultural, and multiracial society with distributed and shared power

One example: Internally, we consistently and systematically review organizational practices from recruiting and hiring, to financial investments, Board development, vendor selection, and more, please click here. Externally, we have committed ourselves to developing a comprehensive policy roadmap of where and how we can work to remove barriers and seize opportunities to advance racial and social justice through our policy advocacy efforts.

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The Team

Amber Clemetson

Strategic Initiatives Manager

Amy Nelms

Senior Program & Policy Manager, Healthy Food Incentives

Caronne Porter

Community Engagement & Navigator Manager

Devin Porch

Director of Business & Operations

Jessica Wright

Senior Program and Policy Manager, Healthy Food in Institutions

Lonni Byrd

Food Access Manager

Taylor Frederick

Culinary Specialist

Wendy Peters Moschetti

Managing Director

Healthy food Policy

Healthy food In Institutions

Healthy food Incentives

About

Our Mission

Our Guiding Values

Our Commitments

Including the voices and elevating the roles of those that our work aims to benefit

Seeking the knowledge, guidance, and partnership of local, state, and national organizations

Employing solutions that are informed by research evidence as well as by community

Testing and trying new solutions

Being adaptive and responsive in our work

Working ourselves out of our jobs

Ensuring that our decisions, actions, and allocation of resources contribute to an equitable, multicultural, and multiracial society with distributed and shared power

Join in on the conversation!

The Team

Amber Clemetson

Amy Nelms

Caronne Porter

Devin Porch

Jessica Wright

Lonni Byrd

Taylor Frederick

Wendy Peters Moschetti

The Board

Ashley Thurow, CPA, Chair

Jess T. Church, MS, RD

Jill Mendoza, CEcD, Treasurer

Marti Hawkins, MBA, BSN, RN

Shannon Spurlock

Shaunda Van Wert

Core Partners

Sara Struckman

NFP Partners

East Denver Food Hub

Andrea Loudd

Wonda Perez

Nicole Frazier

Sally Ayotte

Sarah Kvichak

Shellie Kark

Rainey Wikstrom

Rob Mattoch

Tonette Salazar

Emma Bliesener

Nourish Colorado's Historic Timeline

Career Opportunities

Healthy food
Policy

Healthy food
In Institutions

Healthy food
Incentives