Joy Moore

A long-time local food activist, Joy Moore played a key role in community efforts to reform school lunch in the Berkeley Unified School District, co-founded Farm Fresh Choice, and is a member of the Berkeley Food Policy Council. She has lived and worked in Berkeley since 1969 having migrated from New York city. Retired from the City of Berkeley Chronic Disease Prevention Program in 2007, she attended UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.

She was also instrumental in the campaign to tax soda in Berkeley. Joy currently teaches a garden based nutrition program to high school students and their families in the Berkeley Unified School District and McClymonds High in Oakland. She has served on many non-profit boards and councils, including the Ecology Center, Women of Color Resource Center, Berkeley Food Policy Council, Satellite Affordable Housing Associates, Pie Ranch and the local station board of KPFA/Pacifica Radio. Joy strives to provide access to low resource communities to be able to grow and eat organically.