Brianna Almaguer Sandoval

At 30 years-old, Brianna Almaguer Sandoval has transformed hundreds of Philadelphia-area corner stores into oases of fresh, healthy foods for low-resourced communities. Leading The Food Trust’s Healthy Corner Store Initiative, Brianna is forging a path-breaking and replicable new paradigm for corner stores, as she provides the education, tools, and financial support corner stores need to increase their availability of fresh fruits and vegetables. Under Brianna’s direction, the program has flourished from 11 stores to the nation’s largest corner store initiative with over 680 stores in Philadelphia, Camden, NJ and Norristown, PA. For Brianna, store owners are critical allies in building healthier communities. By getting hundreds of them on board to offer and market healthy foods given the support, Brianna has created the 21st century community-based blueprint to drive healthy eating habits and solve America’s critical food gap.

Brianna is NRDC’s 2013 Growing Green Award winner in the Young Food Leader category.