Lia Turk

A serial nonprofit volunteer, with over 30 years of nonprofit experiences ranging from community outreach, curriculum development, teacher-training, fundraising, event planning, writing/editing, project management and cross-sector collaboration, Lia offers Food Shift a broad perspective as a volunteer advisor/writer/editor.

She has a B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Washington and did graduate work in geography and education. In past lives she worked for the Consulate General of Japan, Universität Stuttgart, Stanford University Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education, and launched Hillsborough Neighborhood Network, among others.

She co-founded Bay Area Border Relief and volunteers with Slow Food East Bay, Protect Our Defenders, Jackie Speier for Congress, and Earthquake Country Alliance Bay Area, always gravitating towards nonprofits powered by people who don’t back away from doing the real work of improving their communities.