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Full Alphabetical listing:
Danny Burke
Field Placement: Community Farm Alliance (Louisville, KY)
Danny helped to increase healthy food access for West Louisville residents. He designed a program for a local food distribution center owned by Kentucky family farmers that allowed them to accept SNAP/food stamp benefits. He also provided technical assistance to two Louisville farmers’ markets in their efforts to accept SNAP/food stamps.
Hunger Free Community Report: Making The Leap To West Louisville: EBT At Grasshoppers Distribution is a guide for Community Supported Agriculture programs seeking to accept SNAP/food stamp benefits that explores strategies for building community partnerships and options to make weekly shares affordable for SNAP recipients.
Policy Placement: Food Research and Action Center (Washington, D.C.)
Danny is researching and updating an annual report on SNAP/food stamps access in U.S. urban centers. He is also contributing to a SNAP outreach and access toolkit and preparing a priority policy report on SNAP outreach to homeless persons.
Education and Experience: Hailing from Monee, IL, Danny graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2009 with a double major in Spanish and environmental studies. He studied in Spain, ran cross-country and track and field, and received two fellowships to fund his work in environmental and food justice. He also completed a senior thesis on food justice and interned at the Bloomington Farmers Market to help the market transition to accepting SNAP/food stamps benefits.
Kate Geronemus
Field Placement: Center for Health Equity (Louisville, KY)
Kate worked with this city government agency to increase healthy food options for Louisville residents. She built a repository for all research and grassroots initiatives addressing food security in the city to inform the work of the city-wide Food in Neighborhoods Committee. She also worked with low-income communities to assess barriers to accessing healthy foods, and supported initiatives that eliminate the barriers, such as the “Healthy in a Hurry” corner store initiative.
Hunger Free Community Report: The State of Food: A Snapshot of Food Access in Louisville is a literature review of food access and food policy in Louisville that examines where disparities in food access persist, analyzes initiatives and research already underway, and provides suggestions for what still needs to be done. It is the first annual report of the citywide Food In Neighborhoods Committee.
Policy Placement: Center for Community Change (Washington, D.C.)
Kate works on the Campaign for Community Values to support initiatives relating to health care, access to jobs, and immigration. She researches and monitors legislation and provides educational updates and summaries to grassroots partner organizations and the CCC policy team.
Education and Experience: Originally from Connecticut, Kate graduated in 2007 from New York University with a degree in gender and sexuality studies. She served as a Presidential Scholar and wrote a thesis on homeless services for transgender New Yorkers. She also volunteered with Queers for Economic Justice and interned with the Brennan Center for Justice where she worked to improve access to public benefits. After college, she worked as an advocate at the Urban Justice Center’s Homelessness Outreach and Prevention Project, and as a Route Leader on a cross-country bike trip to raise awareness about affordable housing.
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