Jilly Stephens, Executive Director, leads City Harvest’s efforts to fight hunger in communities throughout New York City. In addition to overseeing the organization’s core work of food rescue, she has led City Harvest in its increased focus on providing fresh produce to hungry New Yorkers and the development and implementation of programs to address hunger’s underlying causes.

Jilly joined City Harvest as Senior Director of Program Development in 2004, where she was key to the expansion of City Harvest’s nutrition education efforts and launch of Fruit Bowl, which provides fresh fruit to preschoolers on an ongoing basis. Over the past five years Jilly has put in place long-term initiatives designed to address issues that surround hunger and positively impact food systems in New York City while ensuring that the immediate needs of hungry New Yorkers are met with emergency food.

Under her direction, City Harvest has increased its food rescue efforts to provide hunger relief to New York City at a critical time. In addition to food, the organization now delivers nutrition education to individuals, families, and communities to help them prevent and manage diet-related diseases, supports low-income communities seeking access to affordable nutritious food, channels a greater amount of local farm food into high need areas, and works to enhance the ability of City Harvest’s agency partners to feed hungry men, women, and children.

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