Fruitful Facilitation: The Case for Working Groups in Anti-Hunger Nonprofit Organizations

Originally from Los Angeles, California, Clara recently graduated from Vassar College with a Bachelor’s of Arts and honors in Environmental Studies. While at Vassar, she spent her time exploring the intersection between visual arts, environmentalism, and behavioral science as means of creating climate action accessibility. In 2021, inspired to move intellectually past her history of disordered eating and dietary restrictions, Clara worked with a team of researchers and local residents to study how to make the New York City food system more affordable, equitable, just, and sustainable. She and a peer wrote a cookbook based on their research titled "A Bite of the Big Apple: A Food Justice Cookbook." As an Emerson Fellow, Clara hopes to work at the intersection of climate and food justice and support making healthy foods accessible while building more sustainable and equitable food systems.

About Fresh is on a mission to strengthen communities by getting fresh food to the households that need it most. About Fresh believes three key factors impact how we relate to, shop for and consume food: retail access, culture and built environment, and purchasing power. About Fresh programs are designed and sequenced to address these impact areas: Fresh Truck brings healthy food closer to communities, and Fresh Connect connects patients to the food they need to be healthy.