Mayors Sharon Weston Broome and Mattie Parker Set the Table for Feeding Hungry Kids in their Cities
In this very special episode of Add Passion and Stir, we reprise an episode from May 2024 with two powerful...
About This Episode
In this very special episode of Add Passion and Stir, we reprise an episode from May 2024 with two powerful leaders of the Mayors Alliance to End Childhood Hunger. The Mayors Alliance is a bipartisan alliance of almost 400 mayors from across the country. In this time of turmoil, local leadership is all the more important to protecting and helping those in need. Mayors Sharon Weston Broome of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Mattie Parker of Fort Worth, Texas are committed to feeding hungry kids in their jurisdictions and setting an example for mayors in every corner of our nation.Resources and Mentions:
Sharon Weston Broome
Mayor
Sharon Weston Broome was sworn in as the Mayor-President of the City of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish in 2017. She is the first woman to be elected as the leader of the capital city of Louisiana. Since the campaign trail, her focus has been to unite the citizenry around the common goals of equality in education, economic development, justice, housing and other quality ways of life.
Mattie Parker
Mayor
Mattie Parker was reelected as mayor of Fort Worth, Texas in 2023 with 70% of the vote. She has served as the 45th Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas since 2021. Parker is focused on building a safer and stronger Fort Worth, nurturing thriving families, and fostering the highest quality of life in every ZIP code of the nation’s 13th largest city.
Mayor’s Alliance to End Childhood Hunger
The Mayors Alliance to End Childhood Hunger will tap the individual and collective leadership of Mayors to take meaningful actions to end childhood hunger in cities nationwide.
We are building a strong, nonpartisan cohort of national Mayoral champions for ending child hunger. We will harness the collective voice of Mayors to drive change at the state and national level.
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