Filomena Acevedo
Filomena Acevedo
Overview
Filomena coordinates the East Harlem and the Bronx Food Action Boards (FABs), which mobilizes low-income community members cncerned about hunger and other anti-poverty initiatives in their communities. She has worked for over ten years at the Morrisania Health Center with the City of New York. She also worked at the Department of Refugee and Services, and the Immigration and Naturalization Services. She has lived and worked in New Orleans, where she was selected as a Representative of the Children’s Health Insurance for Low Income Children (C.H.I.P) to address the State Legislature in Baton Rouge, which resulted in the children being awarded with health insurance. Filomena studied Sociology at Herbert Lehman College in the Bronx.
New York City Coalition Against Hunger
Anti hunger and Anti poverty organization.
Senior Policy, Advocacy & Organizing Associate
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