San Francisco Department of Public Health 
Shape Up San Francisco Coalition - Open Truth Campaign
San Francisco Safe Routes to School

In 2011, Janna began working with Shape Up SF as a healthy beverage consultant. First, she provided technical assistance to 3 youth serving organizations to develop wellness policies including the Bay Area YMCA serving over 75,000 youth. Then she worked with a Rethink Your Drink committee to develop and implement the Choose Healthy Drinks campaign which included a media campaign placed on SF Muni, BART and in community locations; educational trainings; and materials to educate youth, parents, and providers about the health harms of sugary drinks. She provided project management, secured $250K from the Metta Fund, and co-led trainings and workshops. 

In 2014, the team developed a new campaign called Open Truth that focusses on the predatory tactics used by the sugary drinks industry to target youth, low income communities, and communities of color. She led the Open Truth team in selecting and coordinating media consultants, developing all aspects of the campaign (visual, messaging, website content, launch, media placements, curriculum development, evaluation). Now she oversees the implementation of the campaign including managing the Open Truth social media channels and leading the effort to transcreate the campaign for Spanish speakers in San Francisco. 

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W​orking closely with the San Francisco Safe Routes to School (SF SRTS) team, Janna successfully wrote $6Million in grants to fund the team's work in SF public schools for the 2013-2017 school years. The SF SRTS team includes biking and walking advocates, school district employees, SF City and County members working to improve City policies and infrastructure, and staff from the SF department of public health. The goal of the project is to reach out to students and parents at elementary schools located all around San Francisco to educate and encourage them to walk and bike to school. 
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In addition to working with the SRTS team, Janna also worked with the leaders of the Southeast Food Access (SEFA) working group to write a proposal to fund their important work. The proposal outlines the problem of food security in the community, describes the purpose and accomplishments of SEFA, delineates the history and status of current retail projects, and identifies the needs and next steps to achieve SEFA’s goals. On a very limited budget and compact timeline, Janna conducted research, interviewed SEFA leaders, visited the community and interviewed the storeowner, secured professional photography services, and produced a succinct report that will be given to a group of potential funders. ​

Client Feedback

"In her role as a consultant, Janna is a vital part of our team working to decrease consumption of sugary beverages, most recently the www.opentruthnow.org campaign. She supports our work in a range of ways translating reams of technical peer-reviewed journal articles it into information lay people can understand; promoting our work over social media (twitter, FB, instagram); networking and bringing in new partners; grantwriting; managing the evaluation; and helps us with the mundane tasks (scheduling meetings across multiple peoples' busy schedules). All this work is done professionally, efficiently and independently. Janna is a tremendous pleasure to work with.​." Christina Goette, Sr. Health Program Planner, San Francisco Department of Public Health