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Will Allen, Stephen Ritz, and Jennifer Flanagan | March 12, 2015

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Food=Community. By investing in healthy, fresh and local food, we can Create Jobs, Improve Public Health, Connect Communities, Teach Useful Skills & Reduce Food Waste. Food connects all of us and is central to some of our region’s most pressing issues. Join us to learn how an urban farmer, a social entrepreneur, and a teacher are using food as a key to creating more livable places for all.

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Will Allen

Will Allen has made it his life’s work to change the vast American food distribution system, with its propensity to cater cheap, highly-processed food to low-income urban populations, but his 20-year-old
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Jennifer Flanagan

Jennifer Flanagan co-founded Pittsburgh Community Kitchen, a nonprofit food service company with a fully- integrated culinary-based workforce development program for adults with barriers to employment. Flanagan oversees the agency’s training programming
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Stephen Ritz

Stephen is an educator and green innovator bringing the power of the plant to the world. Stephen teaches Pre-K through 5th grade at CS 55 in the Bronx, and is
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Will Allen

Will Allen is a Managing Partner and co-founder at Nascent Group Holdings, LLC. Prior to founding Nascent Group Holdings, Allen was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2004 and most recently played
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