Qiana Mickie is a New York City based food systems leader and speaker that uses food as a driver of enterprise, innovation, and equity. For over 10 years, she has worked on fostering a food based solidarity economy in the New York region that increases farm viability, healthy food access, and leadership opportunities for small- mid scale regional farmers, youth, Black, Brown, mixed income, and other communities of color. Qiana also brings an equity-driven lens to her local, state, federal, and international policy work on issues such as food sovereignty, land stewardship, and health. Qiana is the former Executive Director of Just Food. During her tenure at Just Food, she advocated for equitable food/farm policy and trained community leaders to start and sustain CSAs, Farmers Markets, and also become Community Chefs. She is currently consulting on multiple policy, food enterprise, cooperative start ups, and equity driven projects locally and nationally. Qiana is the Founding Principal of QJM Multiprise.

Qiana serves on the International Council of Urgenci, Coordination Committee of the Civil Society Mechanism (CSM) for the United Nations, as well as the boards of the Farmers Market Coalition, South Bronx Farmers Market and The Point CDC. Qiana has a B.S. in Marketing from Hampton University and received her Food Hub Management Certification from the University of Vermont. Qiana was a 2019- 2020 HEAL Alliance School of Political Leadership Cohort Member. She speaks on issues of racial equity, food justice, and solidarity economy locally and internationally.

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