Cecily Upton

Co-Founder and Senior Vice President
FoodCorps

Cecily is the Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of FoodCorps. As its Chief Strategist, Cecily oversees the organization’s advocacy and policy initiatives to make healthy food more abundant and accessible in all 100,000 schools in the United States. She is responsible for shaping the vision for strategic programming that scales the organization’s impact beyond the schools it serves through its AmeriCorps service program to all 30 million kids who rely on school lunch for nourishment. 

Before co-founding FoodCorps, she spearheaded the development of national youth leadership and public school wellness programs at Slow Food USA. She advises and collaborates with a variety of advocacy groups to strengthen connections between kids, farms, and schools, including the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, the National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity, the National Farm to School Network, the Urban School Food Alliance, and Share Our Strength. 

Cecily received her bachelor’s degree in art history from Bowdoin College and her master’s degree in arts from New York University’s Gallatin School. She lives in Maine with her daughter, who might be getting tired of her annual exclamation, “I think our vegetable garden should be bigger next year!”