Mariana Chilton

Mariana Chilton is Professor of Health Management and Policy at Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. She has testified before the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives on the importance of childhood nutrition and served as an adviser to the Institute of Medicine and Sesame Street. She founded Witnesses to Hunger to ensure that people who know hunger firsthand can inform the national dialogue on poverty, and she served as the Co-Chair of the Bi-partisan National Commission on Hunger, meant to advise Congress on how to end hunger in America. Her new book is The Painful Truth about Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know—and Start Again (October 2024, the MIT Press).