Catalysts for Change: Ingredients for Success • Andy Fisher, Nutrition Activist and Author of “Big Hunger”
On September 28, for the first time in 50 years, the White House held a Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. This year’s conference comes as millions of families across the country struggle to access high-quality calories. In 2021 alone, 13.5 million households were food insecure, and in June of 2022, more than 24 million Americans reported they sometimes or often did not have enough to eat during the week.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be speaking with food leaders of different types to understand America’s relationship with food and the resulting impact on all of us, and particularly our most vulnerable communities, in a special series called “Catalysts for Change: Ingredients for Success.”
In the last episode, Jill was joined by Representative Jim McGovern, who represents District 2 in Massachusetts and serves as Co-Chair of the House Hunger Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives. In this second episode, Jill is joined by Andy Fisher, an anti-hunger activist and author of “Big Hunger,” to talk about the food industry, the anti-hunger movement, and the history of food access in the United States.
To learn more about Andy’s work, check out the links below: