Cate Puzo
Senior Manager, Communications
Share Our Strength
Cate Puzo is a Senior Communications Manager for Share Our Strength where she writes and edits much of the nonprofit’s organizational materials and its monthly e-newsletter. She also handles the organization’s press relations with foodservice trade media.
Food and words have marked Cate’s career: Before joining Share Our Strength, she logged 25 years as a writer and editor for national consumer and foodservice trade magazines (including Better Homes & Gardens and Restaurants & Institutions) and an account manager at large and small advertising agencies (including Leo Burnett) representing food & beverage manufacturers (Kellogg’s, Campbell’s and Perdue Foodservice, The Soyfoods Council) and farmer groups (Wisconsin Potato Growers, Iowa Soybean Association). She funded her B.S. in Foods & Nutrition from Purdue University by working in the gourmet and deli departments of Wegmans Food Markets in the suburbs of Rochester, N.Y. Cate also volunteers each week at the local food pantry, making mental notes of what works and what doesn’t.
Cate was born in a tiny rural upstate New York State community where Amish farmers sold their remarkable produce door-to-door, yet kids walked to school without shoes for their feet. Now, she supports local farmers markets in Pasadena, Calif. and Washington, D.C. where her husband and she divide their time.
Posts By Cate Puzo on Strength.org
- Ponderings During A Hysterical, Historical Weekend [ 1 comment]
- February 10, 2010
After four delayed and rebooked flights, I finally escaped Washington D.C.’s self-proclaimed “snowmageddon”. It was a true blizzard, even by my high standards (I’ve lived in the Midwest and Northeast’s...
Tags: childhood hunger, school lunch, snowmageddon, washington dc - Sunday Afternoon at the Food Bank [ No comments]
- November 18, 2009
On a Sunday afternoon, 40 near-strangers with strong backs, open hearts and willing hands spent a couple hours sorting donations and packing bags of weekend food for 795 needy kids....
Tags: conference of leaders, food banks, volunteering - Ending Hunger IS Health Reform [ No comments]
- October 9, 2009
Think about it. When people—especially kids—don’t get enough nutritious food to eat on a regular basis, they get sick. There’s growing evidence that uncertain and irregular access to nutritious food...
Tags: child nutrition act, health care, hunger - The Value of 5 Pallets of Cheese Puffs [ 1 comment]
- September 17, 2009
Every Thursday I walk to my local pantry and take my post in the warehouse where I give families their weekly basket of, well, it’s supposed to be bread &...
Tags: food banks, volunteering
