Episodes

  • FSN_Funding Fuels the Mission, Innovation and Sustainability

    FSN_Funding Fuels the Mission, Innovation and Sustainability
    Apr 12 2026
    Behind every meal served is a system most people never see. In this episode, Liz Lowe shares her journey from growing up in a food-insecure household to helping organizations across the country build sustainable funding strategies. Alongside Phil and Gerry Brisson, she explores how funding, relationships, and lived experience come together to shape what’s possible in the fight for food security.
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    37 mins
  • FSN_Know Better Do Better, LLC - Creating Connections to Drive Progress

    FSN_Know Better Do Better, LLC - Creating Connections to Drive Progress
    Apr 4 2026
    This episode goes beyond inspiration and gets to the real challenge at the heart of food security: not a lack of caring, not a lack of ideas, but a lack of connection. Dr. Phil Knight and Gerry Brisson reflect on decades of experience to unpack why so much good work struggles to scale, and why better frameworks, shared learning, and the Six Dimensions of Food Security may be the key to moving from isolated effort to real national progress. If you want to understand what connects the voices, vision, and momentum behind Food Secure Nation, this is the episode that brings it all together.
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    38 mins
  • FSN_A Statewide Lens on the 6 Dimensions of Food Security

    FSN_A Statewide Lens on the 6 Dimensions of Food Security
    Apr 4 2026
    About This Episode Food security gets real when you stop talking about programs and start looking at systems. In this episode, Joree Novotny and Mandy Pullaro break down the six dimensions of food security from a statewide lens—where every decision carries tradeoffs between resources, dignity, and results. What happens when agency becomes the difference-maker? When emergency response turns into everyday reality? And what shifts when we treat people not as problems to solve, but as partners in the solution?
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    37 mins
  • FSN_The Leadership You Never See - Partner State Associations and Their Influence

    FSN_The Leadership You Never See - Partner State Associations and Their Influence
    Apr 4 2026
    Everyone sees the front lines of hunger relief—but who’s aligning the system behind it? In this episode, Joree Novotny and Mandy Pullaro share how state associations in the Feeding America network quietly connect policy, partnerships, and people to move entire networks forward. If food insecurity is a systems problem, this conversation reveals where real alignment—and real progress—actually begins.
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    37 mins
  • FSN_Creating Agency with Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot

    FSN_Creating Agency with Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot
    Apr 4 2026
    As she steps down as CEO of Feeding America, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot shares the leadership philosophy that helped reshape the national hunger conversation. At the heart of it: agency. What happens when people experiencing hunger are no longer on the margins—but at the center of decision-making? This episode explores the courage, tension, and impact of that shift.
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    38 mins
  • FSN_A Conversation about "Access" with Stacy Dean

    FSN_A Conversation about "Access" with Stacy Dean
    Mar 25 2026
    Stacy Dean is a nationally recognized leader in food policy and nutrition programs, currently serving as Director of the Global Food Institute at George Washington University. Over the course of her career, she has shaped and implemented some of the nation’s most critical food assistance programs, including SNAP, WIC, and school meals. Creating "Access' is the heart of who Stacy is and how she leads.
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    38 mins
  • Food Secure Nation with Stacy Dean - "Access"

    Food Secure Nation with Stacy Dean - "Access"
    Mar 9 2026
    When Stacy Dean joined Food Secure Nation, the conversation centered on a single but complex word: access. Drawing on a career that spans shaping national nutrition policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, administering SNAP, WIC, school meals, and food bank funding at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and now leading the Global Food Institute at George Washington University, Stacy has influenced food access from nearly every vantage point. Her journey reflects a consistent through-line: leadership is influence, and influence shapes whether access expands or contracts for families across the country and around the globe.
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    38 mins
  • FSN Three Chairs, UniquePerspectives with Virginia Witherspoon

    FSN Three Chairs, UniquePerspectives with Virginia Witherspoon
    Mar 2 2026
    Gerry and Phil sit down with Virginia Witherspoon, the Executive leading Channel One Food Bank in MN. She chairs the National Advisory Committee for Feeding America. Lawery, CEO and Chairperson - 3 Chairs, Unique Perspectives from Virginia Witherspoon.
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    38 mins