NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release – March 26, 2015

Nassau Community College Presents

Obesity and World Hunger – Leading Change in International Food Systems 

 

April 23 

 Garden City, NY – Ellen Gustafson, a sustainable food system expert and activist, author and social entrepreneur, will present Obesity and World Hunger – Leading Change in International Food Systems on Thursday, April 23 on the 11th floor of the Tower Building at Nassau Community College. The Obesity and World Hunger portion of her presentation will take place at 10:00 a.m. and Leading Change in International Food Systems will take place at 1:00 p.m.

In her book We the Eaters: If We Change Dinner, We Can Change the World, Gustafson proposes that hunger and obesity are different manifestations of the same problem: it's increasingly difficult to find and eat nutritious food. By examining the global industrial food system using the deceptively simple template of a classic American dinner, she provides a blueprint of actionable solutions — solutions that could start with exchanging just a single item on our plates.

Gustafson is co-founder of Food Tank: the Food Think Tank, which spotlights environmentally, socially and economically sustainable ways of alleviating hunger and obesity. It attempts to create networks of people and organizations to push for food system change. Previously, she co-founded FEED Projects LLC — which sells "FEED bags," accessories and apparel with a set donation built into the cost of each product — as well as the FEED Foundation, its nonprofit partner. FEED has provided over 60 million school meals to children around the world.

A former U.S. spokesperson for the UN World Food Program, Gustafson was also a terrorism research reporter in the ABC News Investigative Unit and a research associate for the Military Fellows at the Council on Foreign Relations. She has guest lectured at Harvard, Yale and the London School of Economics, among other prestigious institutions.

For more information about Obesity and World Hunger – Leading Change in International Food Systems, which is free, open to the public and accessible to the disabled, call 516.572.7148.

Media ContactAlicia Steger 516.572.9634alicia.steger@ncc.eduncc.edu/newsreleases

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