Healthy Eating's video: Let s Eat Healthy Leadership Award 22-2023

Meet the 2023 Let’s Eat Healthy Leadership Award recipients! Learn how they championed community health through nutrition and embody Let’s Eat Healthy through their unique lived experiences, work and stories of impact. The Let’s Eat Healthy Leadership Award celebrates California leaders and change-makers who educate, inspire and empower children and communities to develop lifelong healthy eating patterns. Now in its fourth year, the award program recognizes and celebrates individuals, youth leaders and organizations that improve nutrition education and access to nutritious foods to make a positive difference in the health of their communities and beyond. Let’s Eat Healthy Champions/Award winners: • Cesar Sauza, Registered dietitian and Clinical Nutrition Manager at AltaMed Health Services • Patty Corona, Director of Kichenista Engagement and Cooking for Salud at Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center • Vanessa Alvarizares, Health Education Specialist at Imperial County Public Health Department’s CalFresh Healthy Living Program • Kate McDevitt, District Wellness Supervisor at San Diego Unified School District • Alhambra Unified School District Food and Nutrition Services at Alhambra Unified School District Dr. Betty Crocker, Director of Child Nutrition Services at Redlands Unified School District • Fausat Rahman-Davies, Lead Child Nutrition Agent at Rialto Unified School District • City of Rancho Cucamonga Healthy RC, Joanna Marrufo, Community Programs Coordinator for the City Manager’s Office, and the Healthy RC Youth Leaders Nutrition Research Group To learn more, visit: https://www.HealthyEating.org/Award. Launched by Dairy Council of California, Let’s Eat Healthy is an initiative that brings together community leaders and stakeholders with expertise in education, school foodservice, public health, health care and agriculture inviting these change-makers to elevate the health of children and families through the pursuit of lifelong healthy eating habits. Through coordination and collaboration, Let’s Eat Healthy strives to provide sustainable solutions to champion community health and make healthy, wholesome foods accessible to all. The Let’s Eat Healthy Initiative is driven to provide dynamic educational resources and tools at no cost, peer networking, amplification of best practices and the latest in nutrition information uniting individuals and organizations through shared values. Join the initiative and make a difference at https://www.HealthyEating.org/Join.