by Melani J. Camacho | Dec 20, 2021
Jennifer Apostol is the director of REPLENISH (formerly MCFOODS, the Middlesex County Food Bank). She has been overseeing the program for more than 25 years. She works with a network of more than 150 food pantries, soup kitchens and social service organizations to...
by Melani J. Camacho | Dec 20, 2021
Charles Bergman joined New Brunswick Tomorrow in 2014 as the inaugural director of the Esperanza Neighborhood Project. Previously, Charles worked for five years with a cross-cultural parent-organizing and advocacy organization in Chicago, supporting parents in their...
by Melani J. Camacho | Dec 20, 2021
Michelle Wilson has been with Elijah’s Promise since 2006. She is a proud Douglass College graduate and holds a master’s degree from Rutgers’ Graduate School of Education. Michelle first began working with Elijah’s Promise in 1997 as the coordinator of the...
by Melani J. Camacho | Dec 20, 2021
Joachim Sackey is an assistant professor in the Department of Clinical and Preventive Nutrition Sciences at Rutgers’ School of Health Professions. He is a nutritional epidemiologist with interests in food insecurity, HIV-related comorbidities associated with poor...
by Melani J. Camacho | Dec 20, 2021
Edward Alessi’s research relies on an interdisciplinary perspective to understand connections among sexuality and gender, trauma, and migration. His current projects examine how traumatic stress among sexual and gender minority (SGM) migrants (immigrants, refugees,...