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Roxana Atkinson, a Registered Dietitian, is the Director of Community Impact for United Way of Central New Brunswick. Roxana is a Co-Founder of Farm to Cafeteria Canada, was the provincial Farm to School Coordinator in NB, and centered her Master’s research on supporting Farm to Cafeteria activities and assessing the impacts of these programs across Canada. Roxana encouraged leadership in the advancement of food security in NB as the first provincial Managing Director for the New Brunswick Food Security Action Network, to which she still remains an active member of, serving on their Advisory and Operations Committees. Roxana is most passionate about school food and wants to see that every child, parent, and teacher can easily enjoy healthy, delicious, local, and vibrant foods.
Roxana lives and works on the territories of the Wolastoqey Nation.