Transcript:
Leslie Gordon:
I love my job. I’m lucky. I’m lucky to be able to work with incredible people with big hearts, who want nothing more than to help people in New York City live their best life. The people who we serve are just like you and me.
They have stories and goodness in their hearts. They’re trying to achieve what they want for themselves. Moms and dads who have two jobs, sometimes three jobs just to make ends meet. It’s very expensive to live in New York City.
Food banks became media darlings during the COVID-19 pandemic, which you know, as if food insecurity didn’t exist before COVID-19 occurred. But this is a problem that’s been hiding in plain sight. You know, so many people are just a paycheck away from finding themselves standing on a food pantry line. And it just shouldn’t be that way here in the United States.
We’re all just one big community…
And so we have a responsibility to care for each other. I have something I often say, which is, you know: “Rising tides float all boats.” We have a very short time on this earth, and I believe that we each have a responsibility to help lift each other, to be at our absolute best as human beings while we’re here.
