Will Allen, Stephen Ritz, and Jennifer Flanagan

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

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.

About Our Speakers:

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

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

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

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