Jason Flatt
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Jason (he/him) is a Food Tank intern with a particular interest in school food systems and reading new food books. As the Food Systems & Communications Manager at a soup kitchen in New Jersey, he leads a School Food Waste and Recovery Initiative and works with high schoolers to help make their school food systems more nutritious, more environmentally sustainable, and more just overall. Ask him about the penguin he just crocheted, he's very proud.

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