Stan and Clarence chat with Sophia Lenarz-Coy about food insecurity.Sophia Lenarz-Coy serves as the Executive Director of The Food Group, where she thinks creatively, collaborates with community partners, and brings good,culturally connected food where it’s needed most. The food system is complex and interconnected, but making it more equitable is possible.Listen along as Sophia details the detrimental effects of food insecurity.Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships.More about their work can be found at http://huemanpartnership.org/
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's episode is on food insecurity, which is an interesting topic. We have a great guest. Get to that in a second. We have a great crew that makes all our shows successful. For you, the listening audience, we have Maddie Levine-Wolf, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, that do our background research for all our shows. Thank you to all of you.
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And let's move on to food insecurity. Today we have Sophia Linares-Coy, who is the executive director of the Food Group. And one thing I didn't check, is the Food Group just in Minnesota, Sophia? It's just in Minnesota. Okay. So she's the executive director of this group. We'll get into that in a little bit. She has worked in hunger relief her entire career.
The food group is the Director of Programs and Operations. She's been that since 2018. Prior to that, she served as the Associate Director of Hunger Solutions in Minnesota, where she worked on federal and state policies and expanded cross-sector partnerships with policy makers and farmers markets. You know, it's interesting. When I grew up, we didn't even have farmer's markets.
We can talk about that a little bit, too. Her favorite food. Everybody's got a favorite food, right? And hers happens to be pizza. So, Clarence, what's your favorite food?
Seafood. S-E-E.
S-E-E. Anything you see. Well, primarily. Primarily, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mine's some good ice cream, and so I have to keep it under control, you know? Anyway, so, Sophia, thanks for being with us today. It's a pleasure having you. So let's start this out by, you know, again, in my career, and maybe in yours as well, Clarence, the concept of food insecurity was never there.
I never had heard about food insecurity. It was probably there. but we really didn't legitimize it per se with programs, et cetera. So let's first start out with what is food insecurity and then maybe a follow-up to that is how do you measure that? How do you determine if someone is food insecure and who makes that determination? So go ahead.
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