Alanna Silver

Alanna Silver is passionate about fighting food insecurity and reducing food waste. While pursuing her degree in political science at Concordia, she became involved in the university’s compost-education efforts.

From there she went on to co-found ENUF, a B-Corp-certified company that educates all ages to sort their waste better and thus reduce landfill. Silver later expanded ENUF to teach students from elementary school all the way through university level, as well as local businesses, how better to manage their waste.

In 2021, she became program coordinator at Concordia’s Hive Free Lunch program. Seeing its untapped potential, she created the bi-annual free grocery program and the free grocery table and launched the community fridge with the help of ENUF. In 2023, she campaigned for increased funding on campus to create the Hive Free Breakfast, one of Canada's first free breakfast programs for university students. Since its launch in 2023, it has served thousands of free healthy meals. On her mission to increase food education, Silver has also written three annual cookbooks.

In the words of her nominator, Silver is compassionate, driven, fiercely intelligent and tireless in her efforts to help everyone around her.

Silver was awarded the Concordia University Alumni Association's John F. Lemieux Young Alumni Medal in 2024.