I lead the statewide association of Feeding America food banks. Our members, Food Lifeline, based in Seattle and serving Western Washington, and Second Harvest, based in Spokane and serving Eastern Washington, serve over 1,000,000 fellow Washingtonians by distributing over 100,000,000 pounds of food to 575 organizations throughout the state every year.My focus has been launching the Boundless Collaboration - an initiative bringing together my members and their network of Regional Distribution Organizations (often distributing food to agencies within a county) to focus on how we can source food more effectively statewide and distribute it more efficiently to agencies and people facing hunger. Early focus has been on getting more fresh produce to the regional distribution organizations directly to distribute to agencies, rescuing more food that would otherwise go to waste, accessing Medicaid funding through the Food is Medicine framework, and increasing the capacity to extend the life of produce by processing it into products with a longer shelf life.Advocacy is also a big part of my work. Alongside strong coalition partners in our state, we have increased funding for hunger relief organizations across our state, encouraged programs that increase food donations, and pressed for policies that get at the root causes of hunger.