Episode 22: Why Are People Driving Nice Cars to the Food Pantry?
About the Podcast
In this “Candid Clancy” episode, our podcast host, TEDx Speaker, and Founder of the Food Dignity Project Clancy Harrison goes solo. She asks listeners to bring their positive curiosity to every situation so that we can honor ordinary, complicated people from different backgrounds, while connecting all of us.
About Clancy Harrison
As a registered dietitian, TEDx speaker, international speaker, and author, Clancy Harrison challenges the way food insecurity is approached in the US. Her mission to demolish the stigma around healthy food access places her on the cutting edge of advocacy.
Clancy is the founder of the Food Dignity® Project, a strategic program for leaders who want to shift how they approach nutrition outreach by making healthy food access a priority. She transforms the lives of thousands of people through her work with corporations, non-profit organizations, and universities.
Currently, Clancy is an advisory board member for the Pennsylvania American Academy of Pediatrics Food Insecurity EPIC program, Ambassador of the National Dairy Council, and the President of the Al Beech West Side Food Pantry. Since the onset of COVID-19 Clancy has distributed nearly 1 million meals in her community to improve access to healthy food through effective collaborations.
Discussion Takeaways
- You cannot eat a car.
- Often, people living at the poverty line are incredibly resourceful. Sometimes people who can’t pay with money will swap trades. For instance, if someone can do nails, they’ll provide this service to someone who could watch their kids.
- Everyone is trying to do the best they can with what they have.
#1 tip to improve access to healthy food
We need to honestly consider and communicate our projections, perceptions, and assumptions, so we can have meaningful dialogue.
Each week on the Food Dignity® Podcast, the Food Dignity® Movement's Clancy Harrison hosts a wide variety of hunger experts and other people making changes on the frontlines. Join us as we dive deep into conversations that will change the way you think about food insecurity.
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