Abbey Piner works with the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) as Project Director of Community Food Strategies, a multi-organizational project team supporting a network local food policy councils across North Carolina that are increasing the capacity of local communities to influence their food systems. Abbey has worked at the intersection of food and community development for over a decade, from the roots of the urban farms in Washington DC, to urban gardening with youth in North Carolina, to systems change work at the intersection of community and food policy.