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Browse experts on:

    • The Road to the Farm Bill
    • Bridging the summer hunger gap with Summer EBT
    • Expanding Access to the Child Tax Credit
    • Momentum Building for Healthy School Meals for All
    • Addressing Hunger and Its Root Causes

Interim Child Nutrition & Policy Director: Alexis Bylander | Bio

Topics: School Breakfast Program, National School Lunch Program, Afterschool Nutrition Programs, Summer Nutrition Programs, Summer EBT, Community Eligibility Provision

Story Ideas

    • Healthy School Meals for All — offering school breakfast and lunch to all students at no charge to families —helps ensure that all children have the nutrition they need to grow and thrive. 
    • Community eligibility allows high-need schools to continue to offer free meals to all students, but many high-need schools are not participating and too many schools are not eligible. 
    • Summer EBT offers an exciting opportunity to reduce summer hunger by providing additional resources to purchase food during the summer months.

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WIC & Root Causes Director:
Alex Ashbrook | Bio

Topics: Older Adults, Immigrant Families, LGBTQ Individuals and Families, Public Charge, Screening Patients for Food Insecurity, Root Causes of Hunger, WIC

Story Ideas

    • Growing Partnerships Between Anti-Hunger and Health Care Providers to Combat Food Insecurity.
    • Reinstating the expanded Child Tax Credit is a historic opportunity to address hunger and improve nutrition.
    • WIC CIAO aims to increase WIC participation and retention and reduce disparities in WIC program delivery.
    • Specific populations impacted by hunger (Black and Latinx, Older Adults, Immigrant Families, LGBTQ).
    • Pediatricians can play a critical role in addressing food insecurity by connecting families to federal nutrition programs. 

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Director of SNAP: Salaam Bhatti
Bio

Topics: SNAP

Story Ideas

    • SNAP is the nation’s first line of defense against hunger.
    • The Farm Bill presents an opportunity for Congress to pass the legislation needed to help address alarming hunger rates.
    • The Closing the Meal Gap Act would boost SNAP benefits for all participants and make further improvements.
    • The Improving Access to Nutrition Act would eliminate three-month time limits on SNAP eligibility for certain working-age adults who cannot document sufficient hours of work.
    • The Enhanced Access to SNAP Act, or the EATS Act, would put college students with lower incomes on an equal footing with other people in qualifying for SNAP.
    • The Hot Foods Act would permanently end the prohibition on the use of SNAP benefits to purchase hot-prepared foods from food retailers.
    • Lift the Bar Act seeks to restore access to public programs for lawfully present immigrants by removing the five-year waiting period and other restrictions to SNAP eligibility.
    • Restore Act would repeal the lifetime federal ban on individuals with felony drug convictions from receiving SNAP.

Deputy Director of Child Nutrition Programs & Policy: Clarissa Hayes | Bio

Topics: Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)

Story Ideas

    • Leveraging CACFP for Farm to Early Care and Education.

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Senior Policy and Research Analyst: Irene Lewis | Bio

Topics: SNAP, College Hunger

Story Ideas

    • Millions of college students nationwide rely on SNAP  as a critical resource for accessing food to fuel their health and learning.
    • Research consistently demonstrates that SNAP improves the health, nutrition, and well-being of millions of households.
    • Too many college students struggling against food insecurity face obstacles in accessing SNAP.
    • The Enhanced Access to SNAP Act, or the EATS Act, would put college students with lower incomes on an equal footing with other people in qualifying for SNAP.

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Director of D.C. Hunger Solutions: LaMonika Jones | Bio

Media Contact: Brittani Riddle, briddle@frac.org

Topics: Grocery Store Access, D.C. Hunger (School Breakfast Program, National School Lunch Program, Afterschool Nutrition Programs, Summer Nutrition Programs)

Story Ideas

    • Closing the grocery store gap in the nation’s capital. 
    • Scorecard report reveals too many district students are missing out on the benefits of school meals.
    • The No Senior Hungry Omnibus Amendment Act will go a long way to address the alarming rates of food insecurity among seniors in the District.
    • The Give SNAP A Raise Amendment Act will be a significant step forward in ensuring thousands of D.C. residents have access to healthy food.

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