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Field Reports

The Impact of Food Insecurity on the Development of Young Low-Income Black and Latino Children

Madina Agénor, Emerson Fellow
Published 2006

The Impact of Food Insecurity on the Development of Young, Low-Income Black and Latino Children presents research findings from the Children’s Sentinel Nutrition Assistance Project (C-SNAP), linking food insecurity, child development, and school readiness.  It is the first publication of its kind to quantify the developmental effects of food insecurity in vulnerable children of color under the age of three.  The report was published and disseminated by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Spring 2006.

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Publication tags: Field Reports - Advocates (including legal advocates), Childcare Providers, Children, Communities of Color

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Madina Agénor

Emerson Fellow

Madina graduated magna cum laude with honors from Brown University with a degree in Gender Studies and Community Health.  While at Brown, she served as the co-director of a student-run dance company, a peer French tutor, an academic advisor to first-year students, and a community health educator.  She wrote an honors thesis on HIV infection in Kenyan women, conducted health workshops with women in Costa Rica, and undertook research on the reproductive health of women of color with the National Women’s Alliance.  Madina has also worked on cardiovascular disease in Black and Latina women and provided assistance to the Latina Health Initiative, a program of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective.  Born in Martinique, Madina has lived in England, Haiti, D.C., and Maryland.

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