Josh lived in many different places before moving to West Virginia in 2011. He is settled in Morgantown with three children that he nourishes alongside his partner Jenna. Josh directs the work of the Food Justice Lab at the WVU Center for Resilient Communities. He is passionate about popular education, research and activism that advances the Right to Food in different places, but especially in the mountains he's come to call home. Josh enjoys swimming, biking, running and getting lost in the woods.

A native to the gulf coast of Florida, Liz has been a West Virginian by choice for a decade. Working first with the AmeriCorps VISTA program in the areas of youth leadership development and community health work, Liz has spent her time since 2015 working for the AFSC as the youth program director in the southern coalfields. Over the years, ACE has also taken on more leadership roles in anti-hunger and economic justice work in WV alongside coalition partners and our sister program the WV Economic Justice Project. Her work is guided by the belief in the power of youth organizing to make long-term change for the common good. In her spare time, she is an avid reader/listener, movie-watcher, printmaker, and dog-adventurer. Liz graduated from the University of Richmond in 2013 with a BA in French Honors.

Amy Jo is a lifelong resident of West Virginia. She went viral in 2020 after sharing her testimony about her lived experience of hunger and poverty in West Virginia. She has been working as a community organizer since 2017 when she began work with Our Future West Virginia, and has passionately fought for better access to childcare and ending hunger in the state.