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HUNGER

Clancy

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Imagine not knowing whether you’ll be able to provide enough nourishing food for your family. This type of insecurity is called food stress—and it’s a very real problem.

Food insecurity rears its head in more than one in every eight American households. And roughly 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, putting them under significant food stress.

The worst part? Many suffer in silence, burdened by stigma and shame, or blocked by a system that doesn’t see them as individuals who deserve dignity. And when they don’t speak up, their hunger stays hidden.

I’ve made it my mission to drag hidden hunger into the open. Together, we can create food equity for all.

Will you help me spread the word?

Why it matters

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What is Hidden Hunger?

According to the World Health Organization, hidden hunger occurs when people don’t have access to a wide variety of nutrients for a healthy life. The work I do builds on this definition to expose the social reasons behind this public health crisis.

Hidden hunger exists for three reasons:

  1. Many people don’t understand the definition of hunger. So they think too narrowly about it, relying on stereotypes or biases like “It only happens to poor people” or “Hunger is a third-world problem.” Translation: they miss the hunger in the room—the food stress that people they know or work with are silently experiencing.
  2. Those experiencing hunger keep it hidden because of the shame and stigma associated with asking for help. Worse, they’re never considered the experts in their own lives, so they eventually stop advocating for what they know they need.
  3. Hunger impacts every industry and every walk of life—but it’s usually considered an issue for charitable organizations to solve. It remains “unseen” by the private sector—the very companies that could do the most to solve it.

Making the problem worse, our American food system often creates food inequity, where not everyone has the same access to healthy food. Barriers to access, biases, and other issues often lurk out of sight—and don’t always enter the conversation around food justice.

Food Insecurity

Food Insecurity

Inequitable Food Access

Inequitable Food Access

Inexpensive Calories

Inexpensive Calories

Unhealthy Food Marketing

Unhealthy Food Marketing

Poor Health and Related Outcome

Poor Health and Related Outcomes

systematic oppression

Systematic Oppression

To stamp out food stress and conquer problems around food inequity, we need to shine a spotlight on hidden hunger.

“Clancy Harrison is thought-provoking, inspiring, and engaging!”

Solving hidden hunger means boldly speaking to draw attention to the issue, working with brands to meet the problem head-on, and increasing access to nourishing food for everyone. This approach creates the opposite of food insecurity—Food Dignity®.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

AND WORKSHOP LEADER

My audiences learn how to approach nutrition challenges, improve access to healthy food for everyone, and develop and implement food dignity plans.

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BRAND AMBASSADOR

AND SPOKESPERSON

I’ve worked to improve food equity for more than 20 years, helping corporations, non-profits, and universities decrease food insecurity across the country. Food equity requires that we call out systems that don't work and challenge our own biases and misconceptions.

STRATEGIC

CONSULTANT

I provide easy, actionable steps in comprehensive strategic plans. I help my clients improve their outcomes by prioritizing their clients’ access to nutrient-rich foods.

Clancy Harrison

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Learn More About Working With Me

These Organizations Hire Clancy to Fight Food Stress, Expose Hidden Hunger, Confront Food Inequity, and Spread Food Dignity. Will You?

Today's Dietitian - hidden hunger warrior
World Youth Forum - hidden hunger warrior
Eat Right Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics - hidden hunger warrior
abc news - hidden hunger warrior
American Association of Diabetes Educators - hidden hunger warrior
CBS - hidden hunger warrior
PBS - hidden hunger warrior
Relias - hidden hunger warrior
National Dairy Council - hidden hunger warrior
National WIC Association - hidden hunger warrior

These Organizations Hire Clancy to Fight Food Stress, Expose Hidden Hunger, Confront Food Inequity, and Spread Food Dignity. Will You?

Today's Dietitian - hidden hunger warrior
World Youth Forum - hidden hunger warrior
Eat Right Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics - hidden hunger warrior
abc news - hidden hunger warrior
American Association of Diabetes Educators - hidden hunger warrior
CBS - hidden hunger warrior
PBS - hidden hunger warrior
Relias - hidden hunger warrior
National Dairy Council - hidden hunger warrior
National WIC Association - hidden hunger warrior

What's New?

For thoughtful articles and interesting conversations on the fight against hidden hunger, read my blog or listen to The Food Dignity® Podcast.

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The Food Dignity® Blog

Thought-provoking articles on food insecurity and the state of hunger in America.

Clancy Harrison podcast, hidden hunger podcast

The Food Dignity® Podcast

Revealing conversations with hunger experts and frontline fighters around the country.

food dignity, a food equity movement

The Food Dignity® Movement solves hidden hunger with non-profit leaders, health care professionals, professors, and employers.

Together, we improve access to a steady supply of healthy, nutrient-rich food for people where they live and work. Our approach embraces food equity by engaging multiple food access points, community partners, and attainable resources.

Clancy Harrison tedx keynote speaker

Everything I do supports three goals: To expand access to nourishing food... To generate more revenue for clients even as they promote food dignity... And to improve health outcomes by reducing food stress for employees, patients, students, parents, and children.

Who else is committed to fighting hidden hunger?

“Clancy is a beacon of truth for those of us in the food justice realm. She calls on corporations, government, organizations, and individuals to provide food as a basic human right, with dignity and respect. As a fellow food equity worker, Clancy inspires and motivates me to create change in our outdated food systems.”

Jaime Hansen

Executive Director at Swipe Out Hunger

“Clancy Harrison is one of the most unique and credible voices in the food equity movement. She's uncovered countless unintended consequences of well-meaning efforts to address food access and equity and has put those learnings into invaluable strategy and guidance that can help food companies, nonprofits, food banks, and local governments rethink and revise their approach to achieving food equity in an impactful way.”

Erin Boyd Kappelhof

MS, MPH, RDN CEO
Eat Well Global

Today's Dietitian Magazine hailed Clancy Harrison as a ‘heavy hitter in the fight against hunger’ in our March 2023 issue. Clancy is an industry leader and our go-to expert on food insecurity. Her message motivates and inspires audiences to uncover their hidden biases to create food equity.”

Jack Graham

Director of Continuing Education for Today’s Dietitian

“Clancy Harrison is a change agent helping thousands better understand the complexities of hunger and uncover hidden biases to improve food equity.”

Sally Cummins

MS, RD
Vice President, Nutrition Affairs, National Dairy Council

“Clancy's honesty and vulnerability about her own assumptions surrounding food insecurity challenged our clients and audience to consider their assumptions, misconceptions, and prejudices toward those in need. Her passion for others and desire to bring dignity to food insecurity inspires us to want to do the same.”

Mary Lynn Botts

Alabama Hunger Summit Organizer

“Clancy embodies what it means to be an innovative agent of change. She inspires and empowers people, both young and old, to take their passions, skills, and knowledge to transform the world into a place that is more just and equitable.”

Dr. Jennifer Thomas

Wilkes University

“Clancy has an extensive background in food insecurity. Her experience as an academic instructor, grant writer and administrator, and food service director all combine to make her a successful advocate and champion for those in need.”

Dr. Thomas Botzman

President of Misericordia University

“Clancy Cash Harrison is a dynamic, engaging speaker that we were very lucky to have on our panel. She is a great asset for our health professional conferences as she is very knowledgeable in her Food Insecurity presentation yet conveys her message with empathy and compassion. Clancy gives a clear overview of food insecurity- and most importantly, actionable steps on community collaborations.”

LaChell Miller

MS RD CC
American Dairy Association North East

“Clancy’s candid style and humor won over a packed house the moment she began speaking. And to no surprise, she received the highest ratings of all our speakers during the week. So much so, in fact, that bringing her back to a future conference is a ‘no-brainer.’ If you get a chance to bring her to your organization or conference, do it before someone else books her.”

Shameka Jennings

Director of Education and Events, National WIC Association

“Clancy’s education, experience, and dedication have brought attention to food insecurity and lit the path to the development of programs that really work.”

Meg Rowe

Delegate of the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics