Devita Davison is the Executive Director of FoodLab Detroit, a membership – based nonprofit organization dedicated to providing food entrepreneurs with hands-on business education, a supportive community of like-minded food entrepreneurs and access to the capital they need to grow in order to make good healthy food a sustainable reality for all Detroiters.

FoodLab Detroit has successfully worked to strengthen Detroit’s regional food system by creating a new food economy that acknowledges the importance of justice, community representation, and sustainability. The organization is an example of the success which comes from applying a community-based approach to issues of food injustice.