Food Bank Community Advocates
The Community Advocacy Partnership (CAP) is a volunteer-driven group within the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano’s Advocacy Team.
CAP is dedicated to advocating for anti-hunger policies with the goal of ending hunger in our community.
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Meet our current advocates:
Liz Avalos
Liz Avalos is a proud Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano employee, speaker series member and hunger fighter.
Ruby Bayson
Ruby is passionate about helping people access nutritious food—especially families!
Jenny Berten
Jenny is a nurse and community health advocate. She is a hunger fighter who believes all college students should have healthy meals to help them succeed.
Cynthia Daddona
Cynthia Daddona is a Wellbeing Healthy Living-Eating Advocate and On-Camera Talent-Interviewer. She is passionate about Food as Medicine, Sustenance, Love, Connection and Access for all to clean fruits and vegetables.
Keva Dean
She has worked with numerous Bay Area ministries and community organizations as a social worker, family development worker, advocate, fundraiser/outreach and other ministries of giving.
Emily Diehl
Emily’s ambition is to “support others through advocating, culinary endeavors, and helping folks access nutritious foods so they can follow their dreams!”
Ilaf Esuf
As an immigrant who continues to see the harms of inequitable food distribution in her home country and in the United States, Ilaf Esuf is motivated to advance food justice through policies that help all families access healthy, affordable foods.
Tina Loyola-Cabral
Tina is the dining room manager for Loaves and Fishes soup kitchen in Antioch, Contra Costa County. She has been involved with the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano for the past three years after graduating from the 2018 Speaker Series. It gives her joy knowing she can make a difference in the lives of others.
Lupe Marin-Chavez
Lupe is passionate about her work at the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano and is always looking for a way to assist clients with food needs.
Jason McMullan
Jason serves the Ministerial Association, a rural nonprofit serving Colusa County through churches, providing food distributions, pantries, clothing closets and housing assistance. Jason is a leader and voice at the table for the county’s vulnerable.
Maria Munoz
Maria is a navigator for Contra Costa County Employment & Human Services and a participant in the Speaker Series.
Octavia Petrut
Octavia Petrut is an Agency Relations Coordinator at the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano.
