Dr. Lesley Frank is a CCPA-NS Research Associate, Steering Committee Member of Campaign 2000, and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Food, Health, and Social Justice at Acadia University. She is the Director of the Fed Family Lab at Acadia University. She has co-authored or single-authored the Child Poverty Report Card for Nova Scotia for over two decades. Dr. Frank also spent several years providing pre-natal services and family resource support to women living in low-income circumstances in the Annapolis Valley.