Jason Harvey (org management, strategic direction) is the founder and Executive Director of Oakland Food Connection.
His previous work includes being the project coordinator for Environmental Justice Institute for the last four years, an Oakland-based organization that addresses serious community health and development issues around education, nutrition, environmental toxins and community-based economic development in Oakland and the Bay Area Region. Prior to this work, Jason worked his way through high school at the San Francisco Bay Girl Scout Council as a data entry/mail clerk, United States Air Force as a logistics specialist and San Francisco Bay French Bread Company as a sanitation engineer.
He holds a BA in History from San Francisco State University. Currently, he is a Nutrition Education Student at Bauman College in Berkeley, CA. Eventually he will move on to pursue a MA in Cultural Anthropology from CIIS.