Rev. Sally Allocca is the founder and Executive Director of Promoting Empowerment and Enrichment Resources (P.E.E.R., Inc.). For the past twenty years, she has also served as pastor of East Lake...
Champions of Change: Strengthening Food Security
These individuals have committed themselves to Strengthening Food Security in the United States and around the world. They know that hunger is an issue that touches the lives of people all around us.
On January 1, 2000, Kenneth M Quinn assumed the presidency of the World Food Prize foundation in Des Moines, Iowa following a 32 year career as an American diplomat which focused significantly on...
Dr. June Henton is Professor and Dean of the College of Human Sciences at Auburn University in Alabama and since 1985, Dean Henton has provided leadership for teaching, research, and outreach...
Dr. Govind Kannan, Dean of the College of Agriculture, Family Sciences and Technology at Fort Valley State University (FVSU) in Georgia, has spent his entire career in applied research and...
Dana Harvey has spent the last decade in nonprofit management and development in areas of environmental justice, food security, education and economic development. As the Executive Director of...
Erik Schultz is the founder of Thriive, a nonprofit based in Sun Valley, Idaho, whose mission is to use a unique blend of capital and compassion to invigorate small businesses and inspire a...
Joshua Williams is a middle school student at Ransom Everglades School in Miami, Florida. At the tender age of five, Joshua became passionate about helping those in need. He believes that no child...
Jovita Flores is a widely respected community organizer in the Chicago Latino community. She has successfully brought school wellness into focus as a social justice issue to motivate parents and...
Dr. Claudia Llanten is Project Director and Country Representative for Peru for the Catholic Medical Mission Board, where she leads the Unidos Contra La Mortalidad Infantil/United Against Infant...
Kathy Goldman is a long-time community activist who has been working on food, hunger and poverty issues since 1965. In 1980, she founded the Community Food Resource Center, now part of the Food...
For more than 15 years, Terrol Johnson has been creating innovative responses to epidemic rates of nutrition-related disease in the Tohono O'odham Nation in southern Arizona. As Co-Founder and...