Celia Cole

Celia Cole

Celia Cole (Austin, TX) is the Chief Executive Officer of Feeding Texas, the state association of food banks. Feeding Texas network works collaboratively with 20 food banks and over 3,000 local partners to increase access to healthy food for people facing hunger, improve community nutrition, mitigate the root causes of hunger, and strengthen crisis response. Prior to Feeding Texas, Celia served as a Senior Food Policy Analyst at Every Texan, a public policy research and advocacy organization. Over the course of her 25-year career, Celia has led advocacy campaigns to strengthen federal nutrition programs, established a statewide produce collaborative to increase access to fresh produce, and forged cross-sector partnerships with diverse stakeholders to increase food security, improve health outcomes, and build a robust response to hunger. Celia has a bachelor’s degree in art history from Columbia University and a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from The University of Texas at Austin.