120: Women's HERstory Month — Creating Meaningful Experiences with Produce
To kick off Women's HERstory month, Tracy is chatting with Jamie Gonzalez, aka the “Puta De La Fruta," who has, since 2020, partnered with over 50 organizations to distribute more than 3 million pounds of food. With the mantras “Everybody Eats”...
To kick off Women's HERstory month, Tracy is chatting with Jamie Gonzalez, aka the “Puta De La Fruta," who has, since 2020, partnered with over 50 organizations to distribute more than 3 million pounds of food.
With the mantras “Everybody Eats” and “Cultivating Community” she is using her voice and her experience to help people find pathways to quality, affordable, and healthful food choices. Her professional and philanthropic feeding efforts — and actions — are creating private-public partnerships that show there are better ways to feed people, while promoting accessibility, supporting an equitable food system and the economic stability of local food economies, and creating meaningful experiences with produce.
Listen in as Tracy and Jamie talk about how she got here, her greatest accomplishment (so far) and how she intends to continue to ensure that everyone has the right to have the same access and meaningful experiences with food.
Useful Links
https://marketbox.big-state-produce.com https://www.instagram.com/putadelafruta/ https://www.facebook.com/putadelafruta/ www.linkedin.com/in/putadelafruta https://www.instagram.com/bigfreshmarketbox/
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Jamie Gonzalez
Director of Community Food
Known as the “Puta De La Fruta”, Jamie Gonzalez uses her passion and unique moniker to be a voice of strength and empowerment in her industry and her community. She has over 15 years of experience in produce distribution and food manufacturing with an emphasis on operations, sales, and business and community development. Today, Jamie focuses on building community feeding programs such as the BIG FRESH Market Box, The Big State Bodega Program, and a series of traveling produce markets that partner with organizations such as the American Heart Association and Common Threads. Since 2020, Jamie has partnered with over 50 organizations to distribute over 3 million pounds of food. Jamie believes that everyone deserves to have access to the same quality foods and is passionate about changing the culture of how we eat by bringing meaningful experiences with food to everyone. She endeavors to be a champion for the food/hospitality industry and advocates for the understanding that our contributions to the food system go far beyond a traditional kitchen.
