{"id":3714,"date":"2021-01-25T11:09:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T16:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.235.7.55\/?post_type=news-items&#038;p=3714"},"modified":"2022-11-05T11:09:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T15:09:25","slug":"meet-lighthouses-new-director-of-food-programs-anna-kohn","status":"publish","type":"news-items","link":"https:\/\/lighthousemi.org\/news-items\/meet-lighthouses-new-director-of-food-programs-anna-kohn\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Lighthouse\u2019s New Director of Food Programs \u2013 Anna Kohn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"modal-ready\"><p>COVID-19 brought many challenges over the last year, including a huge increase in the need for food. Before the pandemic, Lighthouse typically provided food assistance to an average of 200-300 Oakland County residents per week. Since spring of 2020, we\u2019ve been providing food to 4,500 \u2013 5,000 people per week and that need continues.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Lighthouse created the new role of Director of Food Programs and brought Anna Kohn on board. Anna is now leading daily operations and overall strategy of Lighthouse\u2019s food distribution efforts. She joined the team in December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore I took this job, in asking how Lighthouse\u2019s food programs operated, and I was told repeatedly, \u2018We\u2019re building the plane as we\u2019re flying it.\u2019 That notion has driven the way we\u2019ve operated in collecting, distributing, and donating food in the community during this time,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat we do, and what so many other community organizations do, has never been done in such a unique, socially-distant, and sometimes reactive manner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anna grew up in Oakland County and graduated from The Roeper School in Birmingham. She went on to attend Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass. where students are offered the ability to design their own major. Anna chose \u2018Detroitology.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetter explained as an independent student of politics, poverty, and economic trends in Detroit, with a specific focus on homelessness and mayoral politics between 1943 and 2005,\u201d she said. \u201cThrough this work, it became evident that it is truly the efforts of grassroots organizations that make the biggest differences in the lives of our hardest-hit communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After college, Anna worked for the Detroit Rescue Mission. She was then selected by National Urban Fellow in New York to join their prestigious fellowship program, where she earned her Master\u2019s in Public Administration from CUNY Baruch College, with a specific focus on performance measurements of prisoner reentry initiatives. She used her knowledge to help launch a jail reentry program in Fulton County, Georgia, and then went on to work for a nonprofit that helped men and women transition into agriculture and horticulture careers after prison.<\/p>\n<p>Anna\u2019s experience is vast and centers around helping those in need.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI launched myself into the world of social service fairly young, establishing a charitable organization at age nine for the homeless in Pontiac and Detroit,\u201d Anna said. \u201cComing to Lighthouse feels truly like a full circle!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When she\u2019s not helping those in need, Anna loves to garden and has more than 1,000 succulents in her home. She\u2019s a sculptor, the proud owner of two black cats, and serves as Chair and President of the Michigan Community Corrections Advisory Board and Safe &amp; Just Michigan. 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