Chair: Rep. Jeanne Poppe
Location: Remote Hearing
Agenda:
Day 1 of Food Week: Framing the Issue of Food Insecurity
I. Healthy Food Access Study: Demographics and factors contributing to food access challenges and food insecurity
- Ela Rausch, Project Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
II. Health and economic impacts of food access challenges and food insecurity
- Vayong Moua, Director of Health Equity Advocacy, Blue Cross Blue Shield
III. Rural Grocery Survey
- Dr. Bev Durgan, Dean, UM-Extension & Kathy Draeger, Statewide Director, Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships, UM - Extension
IV. Good Food Access Update
- MN Dept. of Agriculture
IV. HF 436 (Poppe) Good Food Access Funding
- Lorna Schmidt, American Heart Association
- Corey Christianson, owner of KC’s Market in Badger
- Ben Devore, farmer from Cimarron Farm, Lake Elmo
- Lori Throp, Executive Director, The Food Group which operates “Fare for All”
-Lars Kuehnow, Neighborhood Program Officers with Duluth LISC