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Yuta Media

Project Manager & Assistant

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Equity Bank Limited

-Performed over 200 cash withdrawals and deposits for clients daily.
-Organized and filed processed checks and wire transfer documents for archiving.
-Marketed and onboarded clients on the usage of the different online banking platforms to make financial transactions more convenient.
-Directed clients and customers to respective officers for service.
-Answered customers' questions regarding banking policies.

Relationship Officer

Rachael Ndege

Workplace Trauma Lawyer

I help employees get to safety as quickly as possible.

Principal Attorney

Michele Simon Strategy Consulting

I offer ombuds and media services to companies and organizations.

Principal

Bolthouse Farms

Provide various services, including marketing risk assessment, HR policy, and currently serving as ombuds.

Consultant

Plant Based Foods Association

In late 2014, I was inspired to start a membership association for plant-based food companies. Having spent many years researching and writing about how the meat and dairy industries organize their political power through collective action, I set about to organize the emerging plant-based foods industry so that it too could have a voice in Washington DC and in state capitols. After over a year of organizing and planning, in early 2016, my vision became a reality when I launched the Plant Based Foods Association. While I am no longer with the association, I will always be its founder. You cannot erase history.

Creator and Founder

Under my leadership, PBFA grew to over 300 members with lobbyists at the federal and state levels defending our members' First Amendment rights. To read about PBFA's accomplishments under my leadership 2016-2020 see the link below. I also created and founded PBFA's "sister" organization, the C-3 arm that is now called the Plant Based Foods Institute.

Executive Director

Forbes

My focus was on exposing disinformation in the plant-based and food tech sectors. The editors decided to de-platform me for exposing BS because the companies complained. Um, OK. See my articles instead here: https://breakthesilence.substack.com/

Contributing Writer

Miyoko's Creamery

I was asked to join the board to support the company's founder, Miyoko Schinner. Please note the vote to remove Miyoko as CEO took place in June 2022, long before I joined. In the 3+ months I was on the board, it became painfully clear there would be no positive resolution and I was forced to step down.

Board Member

I took a year off from paid work for a much-needed mental health break. (I highly recommended it.) Read more about it at the link below.

Chief Resting Officer

Handel Food Law LLC

Provided legal services to food companies, focused on labeling challenges. Represented plant-based dairy brands to oppose state of California regulatory attempts to restrict the use of dairy terms such as yogurt and cheese.

Of Counsel

Eat Drink Politics

Eat Drink Politics was a consulting group dedicated to helping advocates counter negative industry practices to improve public health. My clients included nonprofits seeking to expose food and alcohol industry lobbying and other tactics as well as law firms holding industry accountable for deceptive marketing practices. I worked with a variety of researchers and professionals, including dietitians, economists, investigative journalists, and marketing experts. www.eatdrinkpolitics.com

President

Marin Institute (now Alcohol Justice)

My role at this alcohol industry watchdog was to conduct research to expose Big Alcohol's marketing and lobbying tactics and promote sound policies to prevent alcohol harm. My reports have included: Alcohol, Energy Drinks and Youth: A Dangerous Mix (which has to investigations by state attorneys general, and ultimate action by FDA), Why Big Alcohol Can't Police Itself: A Review of Advertising Self-Regulation in the Distilled Spirits Industry; Beer Duopoly: A Primer for Policymakers and Regulators, and Out-of-Home Alcohol Advertising: A 21st Century Guide to Effective Regulation.

Research and Policy Director

Having experienced a severe form of covert abuse that left me traumatized, I understand workplace abuse from personal experience. I help employees exit a toxic workplace and get to safety and recovery as soon as possible. I offer sliding scale fees to make legal services more accessible to everyone. 

I am also passionate about changing laws and policies surrounding NDAs and other employer attempts to silence workers. I support any employee who wants the freedom to tell her story of workplace abuse. I have ongoing trauma from not being able to tell my own story fully, and I know many other women who are similarly suffering. Employer psychological violence is rampant and must stop.

For food companies, I offer my services as an ombuds, providing an independent safe space for employees to share their challenges and get them resolved peacefully.

I have spent most of my career in the food movement, calling out BS of mega-food companies. In 2006, I published a book called Appetite for Profit that exposed food industry BS. From 2014-2020, I conceived of, organized, founded, and led the Plant Based Foods Association, the nation's first and only membership trade association for plant-based food companies.

Returning to me my roots of calling out food industry BS, I now write about the "food tech" and plant-based food sectors. Food has a critical role to play in just about every aspect of society: our health, the planet, how we treat workers and animals, not to mention, our very survival. My guiding principle is integrity. There is so much bullshit being shoveled that it's distracting us from what's really going on and how to fix it.

Last but not least, as a white woman of privilege, I am learning to help bring down white supremacy; I believe that white women need to do the hard work of looking inside ourselves to undo the harms we have engaged in through acts of commission and omission and chart a better course.

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Michele Simon, JD, MPH

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