Senior Program Associate

Lena Brook comes to HavenB Media with over a dozen years of experience in sustainable food and environmental advocacy. Most recently, she was Senior Program Associate at the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility. As the Northern California coordinator of the Healthy Food in Health Care campaign,

she worked to harness the power of the California health care sector to redefine the meaning of hospital food and accelerate the transition to a sustainable, community-based food system.
Prior to joining SFPSR in July 2006, Lena directed a variety of environmental health and justice projects in California as the Associate Director of Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund’s California office.

Lena was also a founding Board Member of Urban Sprouts, a garden-learning organization serving low-income middle and high school students in San Francisco and served as a Fellow with Roots of Change. She is an avid cook, urban gardener, and canning enthusiast with a passion for allthings related to food. She was recently appointed to the San Francisco Unified School District Student Nutrition and Physical Activity Committee, and blogs about her family’s sustainable cooking adventures at A Happier Meal. Ms. Brook holds a Master’s degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from UC Berkeley.