Meet The Team

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Ora Kemp, Secretary

Ora is the Senior Program Manager at New York Common Pantry for Live Healthy!  She earned a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Food Science and a Masters in Public Health with a concentration in Community Health Education at Montclair State University, NJ.

Ora is an equity advocate who strives to blend scientific findings and social application through community development.   She is committed to removing barriers to health and actively seeks out opportunities to connect people to necessary resources, education, and tools to promote personal dignity and cultivate self-sufficiency. As a change-agent dedicated to ensuring equitable access to real food, Ora advocates for increasing social and political opportunities which connect communities to resources that encourage and facilitate a culture of health.

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“The opportunity to work together with other people who you do not know to create something larger than yourself is a rarity in today’s society. We don’t get to do that often enough.” 

— Bhavani Jaroff