A partnership formed by the County of Los Angeles and leading Los Angeles philanthropic organizations today announced the formation of the Los Angeles County Office of Food Equity (LAC-OFE). The L.A. County Board of Supervisors unanimously supported the creation of the initiative, which aims to address the root causes of food-system problems in our region.
The partnership also announced that Paula Daniels – who previously served as Senior Advisor on Food Policy to former L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and founded the L.A. Food Policy Council – will be leading the L.A. County Office of Food Equity. The initiative is being incubated as a public-private partnership among the County of Los Angeles, the Annenberg Foundation, the California Community Foundation and the Weingart Foundation.
Daniels will work to expand the Countywide commitment to food system goals and advance implementation of key priorities in the multi-prong Action Plan developed by the Los Angeles County Food Equity Roundtable, a stakeholder advisory group of diverse experts from various sectors of the food system. The County’s Emergency Food Security Branch and the three foundations created the Roundtable in 2021. Nearly 200 thought leaders from various sectors engaged in the initiative, all focused on fundamentally transforming the region’s disconnected food system.
