Image from Flickr – some rights reserved. Last year, someone approached me to get help on launching a sugar sweetened beverage (SSB) tax done in Palo Alto. Unfortunately I was heavily involved in another campaign and could not take on another effort like this one. However, the benefits would have been pretty great. Berkeley enacted…
During my entire time working on nutrition, one of the things that I strove to discover was what would bring people onto my side on the issue I was advocating for. It also means defining who the audiences really are first. Who are the audiences involved in a school district? There are 3 I have…
When I started advocacy with the school district, I had no idea what I was doing. Looking back, I made a lot of errors! However, I did manage to fumble my way up to some decent success despite my lack of knowledge on how to advocate. I did try later to see if I could…
This post was written back in 2017 and reprinted/slightly edited for this new blog. While many of the learnings are valid, I also have new learnings and progress to share in upcoming posts. This post is about my quest to bring healthier nutritional habits to the children, staff, and parents of Palo Alto Unified School…