Alison Hard

USDA Food and Nutrition Service Updates: Supporting Access to Nutritious Traditional Foods in Indian Country
Alison (Ali) Hard, Senior Policy Advisor for Strategic Initiatives, USDA Food and Nutrition Service,
Alexandria, VA

This presentation was made at the Fifth Annual Conference on Native American Nutrition on May 24, 2022, in Prior Lake, Minnesota. This annual conference series brings together tribal officials, researchers, practitioners, funders and others to discuss the current state of Indigenous and academic scientific knowledge about Native nutrition, dietary health, and food science, and identify new areas of work. It was sponsored by the University of Minnesota Healthy Foods Healthy Lives Institute and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC). More information is available at www.nativenutrition.umn.edu.