Lori Nikkel
I was a low-income single parent who struggled to feed my own children when I was asked to launch a child nutrition program at my son’s school, feeding over 300 students every school day with healthy food.

I was a low-income single parent who struggled to feed my own children when I was asked to launch a child nutrition program at my son’s school, feeding over 300 students every school day with healthy food.

We acknowledge that we operate on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples — xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), sc̓əwaθən məsteyəxʷ (Tsawwassen), qw̓ɑ:nƛ̓ə̓n̓ (Kwantlen), q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), SEMYOME (Semiahmoo), Máthxwi (Matsqui), and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem).