Joelle Johnson has over a decade of experience advocating for healthy and just food systems. She is passionate about improving inequities by addressing root causes of hunger and chronic disease and building collaborative, evidence-based policy solutions. As Deputy Director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, she oversees policy work related to government nutrition and food safety net programs, including child nutrition programs, SNAP, the charitable food system, and food procurement and service in public institutions. Joelle earned her MPH with a concentration in food and nutrition from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health & a certificate in food systems and the environment from the Center for a Livable Future. She is a recipient of Center's Cynthia and Robert Lawrence Scholarship.

Her work has been published in the Journal of Nutrition, Education, and Behavior, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Prevention Medicine Reports, and Nutrients. She previously served as a program manager for the Food Literacy Project, a farm-based food system education organization in Louisville, KY, and DC Central Kitchen, a food recovery, meal distribution, and job training organization in Washington, DC. When she isn't fighting for a stronger food safety net, you can find her sleeping, cooking, or biking around town with her two young children.

Joined CSPI

Joelle join CSPI in October 2016.

What's the most inspiring part of your job?

"Passing policies that that make navigating our food system a little easier for people."