Adam Spence ‘04

Since graduating from McMaster University, Adam has focused his work on community development, social innovation, and public policy change focused on poverty reduction and education.

Adam worked as a community animator for the skilled trades in Hamilton, and was the Executive Director of the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA), where he successfully advanced a number of reforms during Ontario’s Postsecondary Review including low–income grants for Ontario’s students.

Since 2005, Adam has been the Executive Director of the Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB). In this position, he has lead a number of groundbreaking research studies including Canada’s first review of the cost of poverty, successfully pressed the provincial government to implement a poverty reduction strategy in collaboration with many partners, and grown the organization’s ability to acquire and distribute fresh, healthy food.