Karen A. Spiller

Board Secretary

Karen A. Spiller, with over twenty years of experience, is the Principal of KAS Consulting. With a focus on racial equity and intersectionality, Karen works with local, state, regional and national organizations committed to creating equitable public health and sustainable food systems.

Involved in state-wide and regional food system work, Karen is a steering committee member of and serves as Massachusetts and coordinating Ambassador for Food Solutions New England (FSNE), a six-state multicultural, multigenerational network focused on food system transformation with racial equity at its core. Celebrating its 9th year of national and international participation during the month of April, Karen co-leads the FSNE’s 21 -Day Habit Building Challenge designed to “build skill and will” and action to address racial inequities, through a food system lens. 

Along with Boston Food Forest Coalition, she currently is a board member of Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts, Northeast Organic Farming Association – Massachusetts (NOFA/Mass) and American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA). Karen is also a founding member of Southern New England Farmers of Color Collaborative (SNEFCC).

As the Thomas W. Haas Professor in Sustainable Food Systems at University of New Hampshire, Durham, Karen is engaged in scholarship on the intersection of networks and racial equity across the campus and its surrounding community, extending to higher education partners nationally and internationally.

Karen is also a land steward and leader of the Old West Church Food Forest in downtown Boston.