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Food Is Medicine & Eating For Health
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| With Jilly Stephens (CEO, City Harvest), Marcel Van Ooyen (CEO, GrowNYC), Robert Graham (Founder, FRESH Med), Leslie Gordon (President, Food Bank NYC), Nancy Easton (Dir., Wellness In The Schools), Tanya Fields (Dir., The BLK Projek), Shanon Morris (Chief of Programs, Harlem Grown). |
| The Greene Space, 44 Charlton St New |
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Sep 25 (Thu) , 2025 @ 01:30 PM
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Food is Medicine & Eating for Health
Thursday, September 25 | Doors at 1:30PM | Program: 2:00-5:30PM
Presented by Food Tank & the Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation
The Greene Space at WNYC & NPR, 44 Charlton Street, New York, NY 10014
SOLD OUT
Food Tank & the Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation invite you to an intimate afternoon exploring the power of nutrition to transform health across all stages of life.
This private, invite-only Climate Week event brings together leading voices in food, public health, & community development to examine how access to nutritious food can improve health outcomes, reduce medical costs, & strengthen communities. From adolescence through adulthood, we'll discuss how a food-forward healthcare model can offer hope & healing across generations.
Confirmed speakers include Grace Young, James Beard Award-Winning Cookbook Author, Food Historian, & Chinatown Advocate; Marcel Van Ooyen, President & CEO, GrowNYC; Nancy Easton, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Wellness in the Schools; Jilly Stephens, Chief Executive Officer, City Harvest; Leslie Gordon, President & CEO, Food Bank For New York City; Robert Graham, Co-Founder, FRESH Med; Tanya Fields, Executive Director, The BLK Projek; Kathleen Finlay, President, Glynwood Center for Regional Food & Farming; Christine Going, Senior Advisor, Food Security Program Office within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Lyndsey Waugh, Executive Director, Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation; Shanon Morris, Chief of Programs, Harlem Grown; A-dae Romero-Briones, Director of Programs, Native Agriculture & Food Systems, First Nations Development Institute; Charles Platkin, Executive Director, Center for Food as Medicine & Longevity, Co-Founder & Director, MedicalBx; Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark, Director of Integrative Nutrition & Advocacy, NorthShore University HealthSystem; Stacey Vanek Smith, Senior Story Editor & Co-Host Everybody's Business Podcast, Bloomberg; Dana Cowin, an award-winning journalist, & former Editor-in-Chief of Food & Wine & founder of Progressive Hedonist.
Special musical performance from Racquel Williams, currently appearing on Broadway in The Book of Mormon, accompanied by Maria Caputo, a versatile pianist, composer, & music director who has worked Off-Broadway, at Feinstein's/54 Below, & on Norwegian Cruise Lines.
This event will also be streamed live on Food Tank at FoodTank.com & on Food Tank's YouTube Channel. Subscribe to us on YouTube HERE & please join the Food Tank newsletter list for reminders.
The afternoon will feature keynote fireside chats, engaging panels, & a reception with seasonal, health-driven dishes curated by Great Performances.
If you would like to request to be considered for an invitation or for press passes, please email Bernard at Bernard@FoodTank.com. This event is also open to all for live-streaming.
Checkout Food Tank's full lineup of events during Climate Week NYC from Sunday, Sept 21-Friday, Sept 26 by clicking HERE.
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