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 Rachel Winch
Field Placement: Public Health Institute, California Department of Health Services (Oakland, CA)
Rachel worked with the Network for a Healthy California to build the prescreening and outreach capacity of the Statewide Food Stamp Information Line. She developed California's Official Statewide Protocol for Telephone-Based Food Stamp Assistance, which is now being used by call center operators throughout the state. Rachel also mapped access to food in Oakland with the Kellogg Food and Fitness grant recipients.
Hunger Free Community Report: Untangling the Lines: Using Phone-Based Assistance to Increase Access to Food Stamps documents efforts throughout the nation to improve access to food stamps using phone-based assistance. The report examines potential opportunities for future phone-based food stamp applications and case management using telephonic signatures.
Policy Placement: House Hunger Caucus (Washington, D.C.)
Rachel is working to increase awareness of domestic and international hunger issues in the House of Representatives. She is coordinating a series of briefings on the impact of rising food costs on international and domestic hunger and is helping to plan a Massachusetts anti-hunger summit.
Education and Experience: Rachel Winch graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Williams College in 2006 with a degree in sociology and Asian studies. She studied abroad in India, served as a campus leader for Students for Social Justice and the Student Global AIDS Campaign, worked as a tutor for high school students in the A Better Chance program, and wrote two sociology theses. After college, Rachel taught fifth and sixth grade at Esperanza Academy, a tuition-free middle school for low-income girls in Lawrence, MA, and biked across the country to raise money for affordable housing.
 Katherine Moos
Field Placement: California Association of Food Banks (Oakland, CA)
Katherine conducted food stamp outreach projects aimed at California's diverse Latino population. She collaborated with bilingual and bicultural food stamp outreach providers to support best practices and to create a Spanish language food stamp outreach website. Through key informant interviews and focus groups, Katherine examined food security issues of the indigenous Mexican migrant population in California and the potential for reaching this population through food stamp outreach.
Hunger Free Community Report: Documenting Vulnerability: Food Insecurity Among Indigenous Mexican Migrants in California’s Central Valley provides an overview of food insecurity in the Mixtec community, an indigenous Mexican group in Fresno and Madera, CA, and outlines their experience with the emergency food system, their knowledge and use of the Food Stamp Program, and the potential for outreach in this community.
Policy Placement: Migrant Legal Action Program (Washington, D.C.)
Katherine is researching and writing a report about immigrant access to programs such as food stamps, Medicaid, school lunch and breakfast, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), migrant and community clinics, and public education.
Education and Experience: Katherine graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2006 where she studied political science and Spanish. She also studied demography and economics at the University of Havana and researched her thesis on reproductive healthcare in Cuba. After graduating, Katherine worked as a research assistant at Boston Medical Center on the Children’s Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program, a public health study on the impact of Food Stamps on children’s health.
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