Alicia Edwards
Alicia Edwards is the Coordinator for Healthy Kids Healthy Communities Grant County (HKHC). HKHC implements and supports initiatives that create policy, systems and environmental changes that result in increased access to healthy eating and physical activity in schools and communities. Ms. Edwards is the former Executive Director of The Volunteer Center and the Commons Center for Food Security and Sustainability, working to end hunger and poverty in Grant County, New Mexico through a multitude of short and long-term projects rooted in social justice and designed to increase individual and community self-sufficiency and resiliency. Ms. Edwards helped found the Grant County Food Policy Council, the Grant County Community Foundation, the New Mexico Collaboration to End Hunger and has served on the Southwest Regional Food Policy Council and the Grant County Community Health Council. Ms. Edwards was just re-elected to a second, four-year term on the Grant County Board of Commissioners. She is also a published poet, author, photographer and sculptor whose art and images are in private collections in the US, Canada and England. Her idea of adventure is a backpack, a one-way ticket to anywhere and has traveled in all 50 states and five continents. Her favorite conveyances for travel are her feet, a bicycle or a sailboat.