Pauline Cripps

Pauline Cripps is Community Food Lead at the Arrell Food Institute, where she works on food security, systems resilience and community collaboration initiatives. She previously spent nearly a decade with the Guelph Food Bank, bringing frontline experience in hunger relief and food access programming alongside expertise in community-based food systems development.

The Arrell Food Institute is a research institute at the University of Guelph focused on improving the sustainability, resilience, and equity of global food systems. The institute brings together researchers, industry leaders, policymakers, and community organizations to address challenges related to food security, agricultural innovation, climate resilience, and public policy. Its work supports interdisciplinary research, knowledge mobilization, and collaboration across the agri-food sector in Canada and internationally.