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 David Kane
Field Placement: Boston Medical Center, Medical Legal Partnership for Children (Boston, MA)
Collaborating with lawyers and pediatricians, David worked to address hunger and nutrition from a children's health perspective. He assisted patient families with food stamp applications and low-income utility discounts, conducted intakes at the Energy Clinic, advocated for clients with government agencies, and participated in state-wide hunger advocacy efforts.
Hunger Free Community Report: Food Stamps and Immigrant Families: How Health Care Workers Can Improve Child Health makes the case for food stamps as a tool to improve the health of immigrant children, providing medical professionals with facts and culturally appropriate information to encourage immigrant families to apply for food stamps.
Policy Placement: Center for American Progress (Washington, D.C.)
David is researching federal, state, and local efforts to improve the economic conditions of the poor and middle class for the Poverty and Prosperity Program. He is also providing communications support for the coalition-based campaign to cut poverty in half by 2017.
Education and Experience: David graduated from Northwestern University in 2007 with a degree in education and social policy and a minor in history. At Northwestern, he organized youth in Chicago, volunteered at a local homeless shelter, led alternative spring break trips to Atlanta and San Francisco, earned a certificate in service learning, and studied abroad in Spain. He has served as a policy intern at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, worked as a children’s fitness instructor and camp counselor, and studied undocumented unaccompanied immigrant minors in the American legal system.
 Bianca Pullen
Field Placement: Medical Legal Partnership for Children, Boston Medical Center (Boston, MA)
Collaborating with lawyers and pediatricians, Bianca worked to address hunger and nutrition from a children's health perspective. She assisted patient families with food stamp applications and low-income utility discounts, conducted intakes at the Energy Clinic, advocated for clients with government agencies, and worked with the MLPC to identify best practices for the Energy Clinic.
Hunger Free Community Report: Energy Clinic: A Toolbox for Helping Families Heat and Eat outlines the need for both food and fuel assistance in combating food insecurity. The report is being used to encourage replication of the Energy Clinic model in Medical-Legal partnerships nation-wide.
Policy Placement: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Washington, D.C.)
Bianca is researching the social determinants of obesity for the Joint Center’s Health Policy Institute. The findings will be used to broaden existing partnerships and to initiate changes in relevant policy. Bianca is also co-authoring an article on racial health disparities for Focus Magazine and helping to strengthen partnerships between the Joint Center and anti-hunger organizations.
Education and Experience: Raised in Albuquerque, NM, Bianca is a 2005 graduate of the University of Chicago with a degree in human development and a focus on the social and cultural aspects of medicine. Bianca was a McNair Scholar and presented a paper on how social support systems affect the pregnancy outcomes of young African-American women. After college, Bianca served as a Public Health Nutritionist at a WIC clinic for two years and worked with the Topahkal Family Practice to provide traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine to uninsured patients in Albuquerque.
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