Ruth Stemler
State Director
Share Our Strength
Ruth Stemler, M.S., R.D., received her bachelor’s degree in dietetics and institutional management from Kansas State University in 1972 and became a registered dietitian that same year. In 1992 she received a master’s of science degree in health promotion from Oklahoma State University. She has been an active member of the nutrition and dietetics community for 40 years. She has practiced in the area of community nutrition, culinary, food service management, dietetic education, clinical dietetics and consultation. She has served in various leadership roles in professional organizations at the national, state and local level. She served as the founding board chair of Hunger Free Colorado.
Stemler is the Colorado State Director of Share Our Strength, a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to end childhood hunger in the U.S. She directs the organization’s nutrition education program, Cooking Matters, which is the largest of 32 programs in the country that reaches more than 8,000 families each year. She is also director of Share Our Strength’s Colorado No Kid Hungry Campaign, a partnership of Governor John Hickenlooper, Share Our Strength, and Hunger Free Colorado. The Campaign’s mission is to increase access to federal nutrition programs and to maximize the availability of nutritious foods in individual families’ homes and in food banks and pantries.
Posts By Ruth Stemler on Strength.org
- Colorado Health Foundation Awards $1.6 Million to Cooking Matters [ No comments]
- May 9, 2011
To help residents of The Centennial State gain access to nutrition and cooking education, the Colorado Health Foundation has pledged a significant sum of money -- $1,664,540 -- to our regional Share Our Strength Cooking Matters program.
Tags: Colorado, Cooking Matters - A Five Year Plan to End Childhood Hunger in Colorado [ No comments]
- December 14, 2010
Our Colorado Director, Ruth Stemler, shares the recently released Five Year Plan to End Childhood Hunger in that state.
Tags: colorado, no kid hungry - Colorado School Breakfast Challenge Launches [ No comments]
- August 2, 2010
Ruth Stemler, Colorado State Director of Share Our Strength, reports on the launch of the Colorado School Breakfast Challenge
Tags: colorado, Cooking Matters, event, no kid hungry, Operation Frontline, school breakfast - Walking Eight Miles for a Summer Meal [ 1 comment]
- June 25, 2010
This summer, the Campaign to End Childhood Hunger in Colorado (a joint partnership of Hunger Free Colorado, Share Our Strength and the Office of Governor Bill Ritter) plans to...
Tags: No Kid Hungry, state partnerships, summer meals
