Izzy Nuñez (she/they) grew up in Colorado Springs. They studied Anthropology at Yale-NUS College in Singapore, and returned home to work with Food to Power because they believe that change in our communities and economies should begin with change in our food system. She first joined Food to Power as a high school intern when it was primarily a food rescue organization and was inspired by the ways that food in all of its forms is so integral to our cities, bodies, and movements for justice. Today, she works in the Education & Advocacy department and hopes to facilitate community-building which will change the city as we know it.
In Singapore, Izzy helped lead the city-state’s first openly queer feminist student organization, as well as a multi-year menstrual cup distribution project. They are an ecolesbian (and co-creator of the term), as well as an amateur electric guitarist, climber, and zine-maker. In the coming years, Izzy hopes to develop a closer relationship to the land, witness transformations in Colorado Springs, and engage more deeply with her own multi-general history of Chicanas in the Southwest.