We are very proud to announce that Susie Marshall, founder of The Gleaning Network of Texas and SHOVEL - Dallas's Food Policy Council - will join our INFORM+ ENGAGE+EMPOWER community liaison team as our Food + Community Liaison.

Susie's passion. commitment and dedication to helping to grow a strong, just, sustainable local food system keeps her at the center of this growing community and movement. Because a diverse, safe and vibrant local food system is increasingly necessary to help ensure a healthy, productive and sustainable community and economy, we thought Food + Community was an obvious addition to our new Inform+Engage+Empower community liaison partnership program. Susie joins Lori Darley as our B Corp liaison and Charlotte Keany as our L3C liaison. You can read more information about the program here.

Here is Susie's story:

She is founder and Executive Director of The Gleaning Network of Texas, which is a Dallas-based not-for-profit organization that finds surplus produce and utilizes volunteers to distribute it to food assistance programs across North  Texas. Before starting The Gleaning Network, Susie worked as the Texas Program Director for the Society of St. Andrew.

Through her work with farmers and social service agencies, she developed a passion for high quality and organic food, equitable access and local and urban agriculture. Out of this passion evolved the beginnings of a food policy council for Dallas - which is now SHOVEL - and a vision for a vibrant and sustainable local/regional food system.

A native Dallasite, Susie has a Master's degree in Health and Physical Education from Texas A&M - Commerce, and she also has a Master's of Theological Studies from the Perkins School of Theology at SMU.

Welcome to our Net Impact DFW community, Susie!