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Announcing the 10th annual Josephson-Spindler Dinner Gala & Silent Auction!
Join us for a night of fundraising for the Olivewood Gardens and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Make it a Million Campaign where we will be working to raise money for the fight against food insecurity in San Diego and foster scholarships for young future dietitians. Around 500,000 people in San Diego County are food insecure, with almost 165,000 of those being children. Additionally, around 7,000 students at San Diego State University are food insecure. We invite you to join our efforts in fighting food insecurity in our surrounding area. CEU’s will be available for this event! The gala will be held at the San Diego Zoo. Each ticket to the gala comes with a full dinner buffet with vegetarian, vegan and gluten free options as well as 2 drink tickets. To purchase your ticket please visit the event page here. This year’s gala has 2 outstanding speakers, the first being Jeni Barajas, who is the Youth Programs Director at Olivewood Gardens. The Mission of Olivewoods Gardens and Learning Center is to inspire youth and adults to be healthy and active citizens through organic gardening, environmental stewardship, and nutrition education. The keynote address will be delivered by John Elder who is a distinguished professor of Public Health at San Diego State University. Since coming here in 1984, his work has emphasized healthy nutrition and disease prevention in the Latino communities of the border area. His talk at the SNO Gala is "Promoting Good Nutrition and Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Low Income Neighborhoods". |
If you are unable to attend this year’s gala, but would still like to donate and help us reach our goal, we will happily take any donations. Please Venmo all donations to @SNO_Corissa_Williams. Thank you!
We look forward to seeing you at this year’s gala!
We look forward to seeing you at this year’s gala!
Guest Speakers
Jeni Barajas
Jeni is the Youth Programs Director at Olivewood Gardens. She is a San Diego native. She attended San Diego State University where she got her BFA in Public Administration. She worked for years in the mortgage industry while volunteering for nonprofits she had a passion for on the side. With support from her family, she left the corporate world to chase her dreams of making the world a better place in the non-profit sector. She has grown food her whole life- as a child, gardening with her family…as an adult, to provide garden knowledge to her two children, to grow food for her own family, and to grow food to donate to her local food pantry. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, camping, and leading her daughter’s Girl Scout troop.
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John P. Elder, Ph.D., MHP
John Elder is distinguished professor emeritus of public health at San Diego State University. Dr. Elder joined the SDSU faculty in 1984 after a research faculty job at Brown University. In 1987 he brought in the 2 first research grants into a center which would become the Institute for Behavioral and Community health. ver the next 25 years he and collaborators brought in more than $150 million in research funds, making this one of the 3 largest research centers at SDSU and thus in the entire 23 campus CSU system. His former students and postdoc fellows have since gone on to continue their research productivity, and almost all of them continue to focus on the health of the Latino community locally, in Texas and Colorado, and elsewhere. In 2009 his Institute was recognized by 'Excelencia in Education' as the best graduate training program in the country for Latino grad students. He has been awarded the title “Albert Johnson distinguished professor“ for his research in 2009 and again SDSU Senate Distinguished Professor for his teaching in 2017. John has worked in 32 different countries abroad in health program development and evaluation. He continues at San Diego State as a part-time instructor and researcher on several grants.
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When/Where
Please contact [email protected] with any questions.