‘Delivering Food Assistance in a Shrinking Humanitarian Space’

Ertharin Cousin, an alumna of UIC’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was named 12th executive director of the United Nation’s World Food Programme in April 2012.

As U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture and head of the U.S. Mission to the U.S. Agencies in Rome, she helped guide U.S. and international policy in response to world disasters.

She was executive VP and COO of Feeding America (then called America’s Second Harvest), leading the organization’s response to Hurricane Katrina.

She began her career in the private sector as head of government communications and community affairs at Albertson’s Foods and president and chair of Albertson’s Foundation.

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Sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities for the 2013-2014 Chancellor’s Initiative in the Humanities, “Food Studies at UIC: Local and Global Issues.”