CCHEq Member Leads Cornell Team Fighting Food Insecurity

Cornell Professor and CCHEq member Laurie Miller is heading a collaborative university team offering community-based policy, engineering, and design expertise to transform a rural food pantry into a community resource hub. The team is working with Enfield Food Distribution’s Executive Director Jean Owens to develop a strategic plan, strengthen governance, register as a nonprofit, apply for grants, and propose designs for a new facility on nearby agricultural land. Jean’s vision is to build a larger structure that still distributes food, additionally providing community gardens, nutrition and cooking classes, and other health programming. This effort receives grant support from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.