Work Examples

A selection of my publicly accessible projects and publications

Collaborated with local food system and equity advocates in Kentucky to design an interactive, story-based curriculum for middle school students in Kentucky. Learn more

Worked with the San Antonio Food Bank on an evaluation project to better understand the needs of partner organizations that serve senior populations in high needs zip codes. Learn more

Co-led strategic planning and quantitative and qualitative evaluation in Spanish and English to better understand the impact of Buenos Vecinos’ work with the local Latinx community.

Developed engaging, data-driven, and fun graphics and videos themed around advocating for genuine transparency in the food system with @FarmerThaddeus. Learn more

Co-launched the Food Literacy for All community-academic partnership course at the University of Michigan. As the Course Director from 2017-2023, over 1,000 students enrolled and over 4,000 community members participated from around the world. Learn more

Surveyed and interviewed farmers across Virginia to learn about the complex relationship between solar expansion, farmland preservation, and agrivoltaics in collaboration with American Farmland Trust.

My peer-reviewed publications include articles about food sovereignty and health, sustainable diets, using stories as evaluation indicators (the Most Significant Change method), food hubs, food access, and more. Learn more

Collaborated with Joining Forces for Children to design a 5 year impact report to share with funders, community partners, and other stakeholders. Learn more

With the goal of improving soil fertility and reducing greenhouse gases, I’m collaborating with a team of soil scientists, engineers, policy experts, nonprofit and environmental leaders, to study the implications of urine derived fertilizer (aka peecycling). Learn more

Facilitated a “stories of change” session at the Community Food Strategies statewide gathering, which informed the evaluation report about the role of local food policy councils to improve North Carolina’s food system. Learn more

Facilitated community listening sessions on behalf of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to identify social determinants of health priorities across Michigan. Learn more

Co-developed interdisciplinary food systems curricula at the University of Michigan centering equity, health, race, agroecology, policy, and food sovereignty. Learn more.

Lilly is an extraordinary food systems consultant. She listens carefully and asks probing questions, produces high quality work on a tight timeline, and is extremely communicative — plus she knows her stuff! Her creative capacities and brilliant insights were much appreciated as a partner in developing a middle school local food systems curriculum in Kentucky. She is the best of the best!
— Dr. Nicole D. Breazeale, Associate Extension Professor, University of Kentucky

Partnering with Fresh Food Connections to conduct an evaluation of this program that aims to simultaneously support local farmers and improve local food access. Learn More

It was such a pleasure and joy collaborating with Lilly on multiple projects involving data collection and reporting. She intuitively understood what our group needed when it came to questions to ask our constituents and ideas for visualizations to present our data. The data visualizations she created streamlined our ability to translate complex information into digestible data points, aiding our ability to report to funders and stakeholders. Lilly has strong project management skills and we always appreciated her proactive nature as well as responsiveness. She became another team member, immediately earning the trust and camaraderie of our grassroots groups. For our strategic planning engagement, she went above and beyond to make us feel welcomed, connected, and primed for strategic thinking. I would jump at the chance to work with Lilly again!
— Rosemary Linares, (hired Lilly to work with Buenos Vecinos and the Latinx Mental Health Collaborative)
Simply put, Lilly is at the heart of building one of the most interdisciplinary, visionary, and community-engaged food-systems studies programs in the country.
— Dr. Lesli Hoey, Associate Professor, University of Michigan

In collaboration with community partners in Detroit, I co-created the University of Michigan Urban Agriculture Internship program, which has expanded annually since 2018. Learn more

Worked with The Michigan Farm to Institution Network to tell the story of the evolution and long-term impact of MFIN. The report examines how the network has changed over time and offers suggestions for MFIN looking forward. Learn more