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Hey listeners, it's Lindsay Smith Rogers. Today, food as a bridge to public health.

Devani Franklin is the executive director of community

and associate well-being of the Y in central Maryland, where Shakira Shelton works running the

Fresh Mart at the Druid Hill Y. They joined Dr. Josh Sharfstein to talk about a program that

distributes food in multiple communities and how it's become a platform for community health. Let's

listen.

Devani Franklin, Shakira Shelton, thank you so much for joining me today,

Public Health on Call. We're actually recording this in the studio, which is really fun.

I really appreciate you coming across town to be here. Yeah, thanks for having us, Josh.

It's very excited. Thank you so much. Now, you both work at the Y of Central Maryland.

Let me ask you this, Devani, what is the Y of Central Maryland?

And thank you.

We're a place that is for all people.

We focus on wellness and well-being.

So we operate under the principles of caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. So that means that

under that we definitely have our gym and swims, which many people are know, they know us for.

But we also operate community schools. So we have community school coordinators and many schools

in Baltimore City. We also support community school coordinators in the county through

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