Portland, Maine - United Way of Greater Portland announces the following new hire:
Jim Hanna of Portland has been hired as Program Manager for the Cumberland County Food Security Council. Previously, Mr. Hanna was an independent food system consultant, most recently creating the New American Sustainable Agriculture Project assisting recent immigrants and refugees to establish farm enterprises in Maine. He currently serves on the Steering Committee of the national Growing Food and Justice Initiative. Formerly, he was Executive Director of the Maine Coalition for Food Security (MCFS) from 1994 to 2002. He is a co-founder of the Northeast Region Anti-Hunger Network and a co-founder of the Southern Maine Peace and Justice Center. His educational background includes a B.A. in Philosophy from Saint Johns College, Santa Fe, NM and an M.A. in East/West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. He lives in Portland, Maine with his wife and son where he tends their garden, has a share in a Community Supported Agriculture farm, and enjoys preserving his family’s ethnic food cultures.
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