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  • Food Secure Nation: Leadership - Part Art, Part Science with guest Dan Flowers

    Food Secure Nation: Leadership - Part Art, Part Science with guest Dan Flowers
    2026/04/19
    Leadership isn’t just about getting it right—it’s about how you show up when it matters most. In this episode of Food Secure Nation, Dan Flowers—CEO of the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank and one of the most respected voices in the Feeding America network—joins Phil Knight and Gerry Brisson for a candid, deeply human conversation about what it really takes to lead. With nearly three decades in the work, Dan unpacks the tension between conviction and collaboration, the power of relationships, and the courage required to navigate an increasingly divided world. If you care about leadership that lasts—and work that brings people together—this is a conversation you don’t want to miss.
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    38 分
  • FSN_Funding Fuels the Mission, Innovation and Sustainability

    FSN_Funding Fuels the Mission, Innovation and Sustainability
    2026/04/12
    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 分
  • FSN_Know Better Do Better, LLC - Creating Connections to Drive Progress

    FSN_Know Better Do Better, LLC - Creating Connections to Drive Progress
    2026/04/04
    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 分
  • FSN_A Statewide Lens on the 6 Dimensions of Food Security

    FSN_A Statewide Lens on the 6 Dimensions of Food Security
    2026/04/04
    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 分
  • FSN_The Leadership You Never See - Partner State Associations and Their Influence

    FSN_The Leadership You Never See - Partner State Associations and Their Influence
    2026/04/04
    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 分
  • FSN_Creating Agency with Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot

    FSN_Creating Agency with Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot
    2026/04/04
    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 分
  • FSN_A Conversation about "Access" with Stacy Dean

    FSN_A Conversation about "Access" with Stacy Dean
    2026/03/25
    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 分
  • Food Secure Nation with Stacy Dean - "Access"

    Food Secure Nation with Stacy Dean - "Access"
    2026/03/09
    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 分