After she spent months distributing food to families in need during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz and her colleague Assemblyman Daniel Rosenthal of northeast Queens championed efforts to increase funding for Nourish NY, a highly successful program connecting New York’s agricultural sector with food distribution efforts across the state.
The two lawmakers spearheaded the effort to make the program permanent as rising food insecurity continues to affect millions of New Yorkers in the wake of the global pandemic. Their advocacy efforts had broad support from more than 50 members of the Assembly on both sides of the aisle, from all regions of the state.
