Carrying the Vision Forward.
The Food Revolution Alliance was founded to carry forward the work and vision of John Robbins: to build a world where food is a source of healing—not harm. We believe that healthy, ethical, and sustainable food should be accessible to all people, regardless of income, background, or geography.
Our work builds on decades of advocacy, and it is rooted in the understanding that food connects to everything—from chronic disease and climate change to social justice, community resilience, and personal empowerment.
What We Stand For
Food Revolution Alliance works to advance collaborative campaigns that improve the food system for everyone, amplify voices through storytelling and media, ensure that healthy food is accessible and affordable for all communities, and support a movement rooted in compassion, science, and common ground.
Our Relationship with Food Revolution Network
Food Revolution Network (FRN), founded by Ocean and John Robbins, is a community of over one million members committed to healthy, ethical, and sustainable food for all. FRN educates and inspires through summits, courses, coaching programs, and media that reach millions each year.
Food Revolution Alliance is FRN's sister nonprofit. Where FRN empowers individuals to transform their own health and lives, FRA channels that collective energy outward — into campaigns and partnerships aimed at changing the systems, policies, and corporate practices that shape everyone's food.
Our Team
Shilpa Jain, Founding Coordinator
Shilpa Jain is a facilitator, community organizer, and former Executive Director of YES!, where she has spent almost 25 years supporting visionary changemakers worldwide. A lifelong champion of deep listening, systemic change, and conscious leadership, Shilpa has dedicated her career to healing collective trauma, fostering restorative justice, and building resilient communities. She is a close friend and longtime collaborator with the Robbins family, working alongside them to cultivate a more just, compassionate, and interconnected world.
Board of Directors
Ocean Robbins, President
Ocean Robbins is co-founder and CEO of the million-member Food Revolution Network and a 2026 MO100 Top Impact CEO. A TEDx speaker and bestselling author of 31-Day Food Revolution and Powered By Plants, Ocean has spent his life working to transform the food system, drive down chronic disease, and mobilize people worldwide for a healthier planet. He founded the nonprofit YES! at age 16 and was raised on home-grown food in a log cabin built by his parents, John and Deo Robbins.
Veronica Monet
Veronica Monet has over 35 years of extensive media experience both behind and in front of the camera, and she brings that expertise as a creative director, media consultant, and longtime collaborator in the food revolution movement. She served as Creative Consultant on the award-winning 2024 documentary Love Over Money, which chronicles the life and work of John Robbins, and has been Creative Director and Script Consultant for the annual Food Revolution Summit docuseries since 2023. Veronica worked closely with John Robbins for over a decade across workshops, speaking engagements, media production, and many other endeavors.
Brenda Davis, RD
Brenda Davis is a registered dietitian, internationally acclaimed researcher and speaker, and one of the world's leading voices in plant-based nutrition. Her books have sold over a million copies in 15 languages, and her Tackling Type 2 masterclass, produced with Food Revolution Network, has reached more than 100,000 people. Brenda has served as lead dietitian in a diabetes intervention research project in the Marshall Islands and is a past chair of the Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association.
Deo Robbins
Deo Robbins is a pioneer of the whole-foods, plant-based movement and a foundational pillar of the Robbins family legacy. Alongside her late husband John, in 1969 she chose a life of simplicity, raising their son Ocean in a log cabin they built on a remote island. Since the publication of John’s seminal book Diet for a New America in 1987, Deo worked and traveled with John, spreading a message of health, compassion, and ecological well-being through workshops, presentations, and research projects.
Sage Lavine
Sage Lavine is the CEO of Women Rocking Business, reaching over 500,000 women entrepreneurs globally, and the bestselling author of Women Rocking Business (Hay House). A TEDx speaker and pioneer in purpose-driven entrepreneurship, she has raised over a million dollars for humanitarian projects focused on empowering women and promoting environmental health. Sage is a longtime friend and collaborator of the Robbins family.