OUR WORK
OUR PROGRAMS
FOOD SYSTEM MAPPING
POPULAR EDUCATION
THE STIR PROGRAM
THE MARKET
FOOD GROUP ASSEMBLIES
Food group assemblies
Campus Food Group Assemblies bring student food groups together to share resources, exchange knowledge, and tackle common challenges. These gatherings create space for collaboration and collective problem-solving, helping groups strengthen their projects and build a more connected campus food system.
CAMPUS FOOD REFORM
EVENTS AND CONFERENCES
CFC EVENTS
Solidarity Brunches
- Monthly free bagels and parfait brunch for students and campus community members
Solidarity Suppers
- Cook together dinners with activities and presentations
DevOur Campus Conference
- Annual gathering of campus food groups, food studies faculty and advocacy groups.
Harvest Party
- Annual free feast featuring local food, live music, garden tours and cooking workshops.
FungiFest
- Annual partnership to showcase of mushroom cultivation, culinary and medicinal transformation workshops and market.
Loyola Food Fair
- Annual winter showcase of food groups and programs, on the Loyola campus, with extra special lunch, activities and grocery-give-away.
Student Food Security Fair
- Annual showcase of fee levy and food groups working to combat food insecurity.
RESEARCH
OUR WORK
We incubate a better campus food system by supporting ideas, projects, and the people behind them. We connect and convene our community, creating opportunities to learn from one another, share knowledge, and teach what works.
OUR TEAM
Gabriela Lopes
General Coordinator
Gabriela first got involved with the CFC as an undergrad in 2014, drawn to food justice and systemic transformation. She founded the working group Love and Honey in 2017 to explore food systems through a research lens, and later deepened that work by studying law at McGill, focusing on international human rights, development, and Indigenous legal traditions.
After serving as Secretary and Chair of the CFC Board, she’s now the General Coordinator. She has also been actively involved in the creation of the McGill Food Coalition. Gabriela is passionate about food systems, storytelling, and growing things—whether it’s ideas, veggies, or community. She also dreams of illustrating her own graphic novel one day.
Sheena Swirlz
Education and Engagement Coordinator
Sheena is passionate about food issues, especially those related to ethically and locally sourced ingredients. She loves to garden, cook epic plant-based feasts and host potlucks with friends.
Past projects include Urban Homesteading Montreal – ecological lifestyle workshops around Montreal and Radical Montreal – mapping alternative events and orgs across Montreal. She loves camping, decorating and organizing group adventure activities.
Jijii Buck
Market and Food Waste Coordinator
Jijii is a community-centred activist, interdisciplinary artist, farmer, and organizational practitioner committed to building equitable food and social systems. Since 2019, they have worked with non-profits across Canada advancing accessibility, harm reduction, and community-led systems change.
Through facilitation, mentorship, systems development, and land-based practice, Jijii remains committed to uplifting underrepresented communities and challenging the status quo—one project at a time.
In their spare time, you can find them in the garden, swimming in nearby waters, spending time with their two kitties, reading, painting, camping, cycling, or birding.
Roxy Momax
Food Network Coordinator
Roxanne is a passionate advocate for community-led initiatives, especially those which are centered around food and sustainability. She loves to host huge dinner parties and to spend hours combing the city for the freshest produce. Roxanne was originally born in the United States but has moved around the world her entire life.
Roxanne is currently studying Environment and International Development at McGill University. She previously served for two years as a Sustainability Commissioner with the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU), where she worked on initiatives promoting sustainability and student engagement. She also managed the McGill Farmers’ Market, helping strengthen connections between local producers and the campus community.
In her free time, Roxanne can usually be found outdoors, making art, tending to plants, or planning her next meal!
OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Malak (Mal) Mooman
Hanine El Mir
Michelle Della Corte
Austin Osei
Nasreen Begum
Maria Bouzid
Marlene Hale
Vijay Kolinjivadi
Marion Namawa
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS
ANNUAL REPORTS
CFC 2024-25 Annual Report
CFC 2022-2023 Annual Report
CFC 2020-21 Annual Report
CFC 2018-19 Annual Report
CFC 2016-17 Annual Report
CFC 2014-15 Annual Report
CFC 2025-2026 Annual Report
CFC 2023-24 Annual Report
CFC 2021-22 Annual Report
CFC 2019-20 Annual Report
CFC 2017-18 Annual Report
CFC 2015-16 Annual Report
JOIN OUR AGM!
Each year in January, our members gather to get highlights from our annual impacts, and updates for what’s coming up next.
Membership is free, and members get access to attend and vote in our annual elections.
Want to gain skills, while contributing to campus food system transformation? Join our board of directors!
Check back here for all the details for our January Annual General Meeting!
FEE LEVY GROUPS AND OPT OUTS
The CFC is a nonprofit community organization that was founded in 2013. We are a Concordia Fee-Levy group at Concordia University that collects $0.32 cents per credit from undergraduate students. This allows us to carry out our mission of transforming Concordia’s food system.
The Concordia Food Coalition is committed to providing our members access to key documents regarding our status as a non-profit organization and as a Concordia University fee levy association. We have been a fee-levy organization since 2014.
When you opt out of a fee-levy group, you are withdrawing your support for the group and will no longer be able to access its services, attend events or vote in our general meetings.
Any Concordia student who wishes to opt out of the CFC fee levy ($0.32 per credit for undergraduate students) may do so during the opt out period which begins between 24 hours s after the DNE deadline for each semester and lasts for 14 days. For more information and to opt-out please visit the Concordia Community website.