Emerson Fellowship
Field Placement: California Department of Health
Oakland, California
Rachel worked with the Network for a Healthy California to build the prescreening and outreach capacity of the Statewide Food Stamp Information Line. She developed California’s Official Statewide Protocol for Telephone-Based Food Stamp Assistance, which is now being used by call center operators throughout the state. Rachel also mapped access to food in Oakland with the Kellogg Food and Fitness grant recipients.
Policy Placement: U.S. House of Representatives Hunger Caucus
Washington, D.C.
Rachel worked to increase awareness of domestic and international hunger issues in the House of Representatives. She coordinated a series of briefings on the impact of rising food costs on international and domestic hunger and helped to plan a Massachusetts anti-hunger summit.
Leland Fellowship
Placement: Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF), Alexandria, Virginia
Rachel Winch joined the Leland Program during its second year. At GCNF Rachel updated and expanded the Global Child Nutrition Foundation’s school feeding toolkit. Originally created for use at the GCNF’s annual school feeding forum, the toolkit provided the resources to conduct a country needs assessment focused in four target areas: government commitment and political will; institutional capacity; community commitment and resource utilization; and design and implementation. Rachel supplemented the toolkit with case studies, including of school feeding programs operating in India, Mali, and Guatemala. Rachel also collaborated with Elizabeth Whelan on a book that documented the school feeding sites through photos and stories. Rachel also built the capacity of GCNF’s Global Knowledge Center, a resource for those working in school feeding to exchange ideas, best practices, and updates on their work.