Past Symposium

Food insecurity and how it affects families with young children

• Dr. May Wang, “Food insecurity in our changing world”

• Catherine Martinez, “The Los Angeles County WIC program and how it addresses food insecurity”

• Amy Santos and Clara Arambula, “CSUF Center for Healthy Neighborhoods' approach to addressing food insecurity”

Break 10:35 am - 10:40 am

County-wide efforts to address food insecurity during the pandemic

• Dr. Julia Caldwell and Dipa Shah-Patel, “Improving food insecurity in Los Angeles County: LA County DPH recommendations and programs”

• Claudia Keller, “Food banks – where we’ve been, where do we go from here?”

Break 11:45 am - 11:50 am

Addressing food insecurity on college campuses

• Dr. Tabashir Nobari, “The impact of the pandemic on food insecurity among CSUF students”

• Victoria Ajemian, “Food assistance through Tuffy’s Basic Needs”

• Dr. Nelida Duran, “Creating a culture of care to support student basic needs”

Break 12:45 - 1:00

Breakout Room #2:

• Kristen Johansson, “The ASI Food Pantry at Cal State Fullerton: Understanding our service and how we are addressing food insecurity on campus”

• Christine Nguyen, “Swipe Out Hunger: Understanding U.S. college food pantries’ challenges”

• Lyba Batla & Eduardo Gomez, “Automatically recognizing mentions of food in social media posts for targeted messaging about food storage”

Breakout Room #3:

• Brynne Burrows, “Food insecurity rates among WIC participants during COVID-19”

• Lilly Nhan, “Food insecurity among Asian Americans in California, 2011-2020”