Joel Berg is a nationally recognized leader and media spokesman in the fields of domestic hunger, food security, obesity, poverty, food-related economic development, national service, and volunteerism. He is CEO of Hunger Free America, a nationwide advocacy and direct service organization working to enact the programs and policies necessary to eliminate food insecurity in the U.S. He is also the author of All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America? , the definitive and most well-reviewed book on American hunger of the last decade. Seven Stories Press just published his second book, America We Need to Talk: a Self Help Book for the Nation, which Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison called important and entertaining.

Joel currently leads Hunger Free America, formerly the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. Joining the organization in 2001, Joel has grown the nonprofit into a multi-million-dollar, respected national champion for Americans struggling to obtain nutritious food. Operating on the philosophy, “Ending hunger lifts us all,” Joel and his team advocate for systemic change across the country, seeking higher wages, more living wage jobs, and a stronger nutrition safety net.

Joel has recently appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, New York One’s Inside City Hall with Errol Louis, and on C-SPAN. He has also been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and a host of media publications, both domestic and international.