Hey, everybody, it's Kai.

Thanks for listening to this episode of the Corner Office podcast.

This month on the pod, all our guests are going to be people running charities and nonprofits.

Last week, we talked to the CEO of Habitat for Humanity.

This week, we've got Claire Babino-Fontino.

She's the CEO of Feeding America, the second biggest charity in the country, using a pretty huge network of food banks and volunteers and meal programs and more to feed more than 40 million people every year.

And also to try to end the massive problem of hunger in this economy.

We talked to Ms. Babineau-Fontan who took over the nonprofit last year after 13 years on the leadership team at Walmart.

Claire, thanks for coming in.

Well, thank you. I'm happy to be here.

When you are out and about and people say, Claire, what do you do?

And you say, I run Feeding America.

They say, what's that, right?

Yeah. Well, the good news is they're more inclined to have a sense of what I do now than when I used to tell him I was a tax lawyer.

Okay, well, say more about that.

I mean, you are a product of corporate America who now is running a ginormous nonprofit social services agency.

That's exactly right.

So I grew up as a lawyer and did engaged in various ways using that law license, including

having worked in government and big for accounting.

I was in a major law firm, well, major by Louisiana standards. And I was also an executive at Fortune One. So did all of those things.

Always had a passion for people. I say I have a heart for people and a

head for numbers. And the role that I have right now allows me to access both of them at one time.

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