Meghann Dallin
Program Manager
New Mexico No Kid Hungry Campaign.
Meghann Dallin manages the New Mexico No Kid Hungry Campaign, a partnership between the New Mexico Collaboration to End Hunger and Share Our Strength. She is a longtime resident of New Mexico and received a Bachelor of Environmental Science with a Minor in Photojournalism from New Mexico State University (NMSU). Meghann went on to work as an agroforestry volunteer for the Peace Corps in Cameroon, West Africa. After receiving her Master of Public Health degree from NMSU, Meghann worked as a violence prevention specialist in Las Cruces, NM. She eventually relocated to Washington State and worked for the Klickitat County Health Department where she developed and coordinated the Chronic Disease Prevention Program. There she oversaw the formation of the Healthy People Alliance, a coalition that promotes access to healthy nutrition and physical activity. It was during this time that her interest in addressing food insecurity guided Meghann to her current position as program manager of the New Mexico No Kid Hungry Campaign.
Posts By Meghann Dallin on Strength.org
- Breakfast in the Classroom = Positive Results in New Mexico [ 1 comment]
- March 5, 2012
I recently visited Deborah Detorie, principal at Montezuma Elementary School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the Breakfast in the Classroom program has just started for third through fifth graders. During my tour of the classrooms, where students were eating breakfast during the first few minutes of morning instruction, the teacher asked students to raise their hand if they had not regularly eaten breakfast at home or school before the Breakfast in the Classroom program. Nearly half of the students raised their hands. For those students, it could have been any number of reasons why they missed breakfast -- waking up late, rushing to school, or preferring to play outside with friends. Though for some students, it is more serious, there are simply not enough food resources at home to guarantee a breakfast meal.
Tags: new mexico, school breakfast - Expanding Our Reach [ No comments]
- February 10, 2012
Last summer, thanks to the work of Hilda Candelaria, Food Service Director of Moriarty-Edgewood School District, a bright red umbrella shading a picnic table from the strong sun, served as a new summer meal site for children living in Echo Ridge, a rural community outside the town of Moriarty, New Mexico.
Tags: colorado, new mexico, school meals, summer meals - Growing School Breakfast, Ending Childhood Hunger [ No comments]
- December 5, 2011
I’ve seen the reality of child food insecurity in New Mexico. I am witness to households with children whose parents work hard to meet their basic needs but struggle to have enough food resources for sufficient nourishment. I see it in the summer, on weekends, and during the school year.
Tags: new mexico, no kid hungry, school breakfast, universal breakfast
