Anna Fischer, Director for Healthy Communities, has extensive experience in public policy development, research, and evaluation. She focuses on food systems and anti-hunger policy and has additional experience in health care, immigration, education, workforce development, and criminal justice. Ms. Fischer’s skills include both quantitative and qualitative research methods. She has also received training on implicit bias and brings an equity lens to her work. Her work contributes to PPA’s 35-year history of providing “Better Public Policy for a Better World.”

Prior to joining PPA, Ms. Fischer worked as a nutrition policy advocate in California, where she played a key role in the development and passage of state legislation that increased access to school meals for over 650,000 students with low income.

Ms. Fischer is dedicated to community and public service. She was appointed to the Environmental Commission of Meridian Township in 2021 and served for over three years, most recently as vice chair. She was a founding Board member of the Eastside Lansing Food Co-Op (ELFCO), a market for local foods and small farm products. Ms. Fischer also served on the Council for the Michigan Good Food Charter, a roadmap for Michigan’s food system that is rooted in local communities and centered on good food.