Beverley Wheeler, director of D.C. Hunger Solutions, (second from right) officially joined the DC Food Policy Council on November 18, 2019.

“We are too powerful, too big, and too bad to let our kids go hungry!” said Dr. Beverley Wheeler, director of DCHS, at the recent Maternal & Infant Health Summit. Check out our blog post on the summit.

Of all the full-service grocery stores in the District of Columbia, only two are located in Ward 7 and just one is in Ward 8, according to our report, Closing the Grocery Store Gap in the Nation’s Capital.