Clancy Cash Harrison MS, RDN, FAND
Founder, President
As a registered dietitian, TEDx speaker, international speaker, and author, Clancy Harrison challenges the way food inequity is approached in the US. Her mission to demolish the stigma around healthy food access places her on the cutting edge of advocacy.
Clancy is a resident of Forty Fort, Pennsylvania and the founder of the Food Dignity® Movement, a strategic program for leaders who want to shift how they approach food, agricultural, and nutrition outreach by making healthy food access a priority. She transforms thousands of people’s lives through her work with corporations, non-profit organizations, and universities.
Currently, Clancy is an advisory board member for the Pennsylvania American Academy of Pediatrics Food Insecurity EPIC program, and Ambassador of the National Dairy Council. Since the onset of COVID-19, Clancy has distributed nearly 4+ million meals in her community to improve access to healthy food through effective collaborations.
Listen to Clancy weekly on the Food Dignity® Podcast or find her personal site at https://www.clancyharrison.com.
Suzanne M. Kapral
Suzanne is a TEDxScranton speaker, an accomplished author, and a devoted advocate for children and animals. Her multifaceted career incorporates roles such as a Court-Appointed Special Advocate for Children (CASA) and a Farm Animal Welfare Auditor, demonstrating her commitment to both human wellbeing and ethical animal treatment.
As a respected advisor in farm-based interventions, Suzanne offers expert counsel across the United States on the creation, funding, and maintenance of farm therapy programs. Her vision is to empower service providers to launch responsible initiatives that meld the therapeutic benefits of agriculture with the need for compassionate human services.
Suzanne's contributions were critical in establishing the Care Farming program at The Lands at Hillside Farms. This initiative has been providing trauma services tailored to children's needs, including those on the autism spectrum, since 2013. Through Care Farming, Hillside Farms has provided healing farm-based, animal-assisted activities to nearly 1,000 children grieving the loss of loved ones due to various circumstances, including overdose, murder, or suicide. The program invites children in foster care or suffering from the impact of family addiction, further widening its scope of support.
Drawing on a decade's experience at the PBS/NPR affiliate, WVIA TV/FM, where she worked as a current-events show producer, host, and on-air fundraiser, Suzanne seized an opportunity that brought her life's journey full circle. In 2010, she was appointed head of the development and marketing team at Hillside Farms, a historic, non-profit dairy farm focused on imparting sustainable and logical life choices. Remarkably, Hillside Farm, sprawling over 434-acres in Trucksville, Pennsylvania, was Suzanne's personal oasis during her own childhood fraught with family addiction. Suzanne explains, "I wanted to transform Hillside Farms - my childhood refuge - into a healing hub for other hurting children, lending them the comfort, safety, and understanding I found here."
Currently, Suzanne serves on the Green Care Advisory Board for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Office of Youth and Young Adult Services Bureau of Substance Addiction. She's also an Animal Welfare Auditor for A Greener World and mentors at Food Animal Concerns Trust. Her TedXScranton talk, "How Cows and a Cornfield Helped Heal Childhood Trauma", reveals her personal journey through childhood trauma, and how it fired her passion for initiating the Green Care program at Hillside Farms.
Suzanne equipped herself academically with a Master of Science in Animal Behavior/Animal Welfare from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, paired with a Master of Science in Organizational Management from Misericordia University. This blend of animal behavioral knowledge and organizational savvy has shaped Suzanne into the compassionate subject matter expert she is today.
Brian Thomas
Brian is a Registered Nurse and recently retired after more than 25 years in the healthcare information technology industry. In his most recent executive role at the Cerner Corporation, his responsibilities provided him a unique view of many of the different healthcare providers and specialties across the country. Through his exposure to healthcare delivery in the US, he has developed an understanding and personal interest in the issue of health equity including the important role food equity plays in the overall health of a community.
He holds a bachelor's degree in nursing from Wilkes University and a master's degree from the University of Scranton. During his professional career, Brian has also led several different non-profit organizations in the homecare and hospice industry.
A lifelong resident of Luzerne County, Brian is a graduate of Leadership Wilkes Barre and a past recipient of the Outstanding Alumni Award. He is also active on a number of Boards of nonprofit community organizations and currently serves as the Mayor of the Borough of Forty Fort.
Chet Mozloom
Chet Mozloom is Executive Director of the Lands at Hillside Farms. Chet brings to the Food Dignity board extensive experience in management and finance, combined with the management of numerous private foundation, state, local and federal grants. Under Chet's leadership, The Lands at Hillside Farms has evolved into a nationally-recognized and lauded non-profit educational dairy farm. For nearly two decades, Chet has spearheaded and championed local programs serving at-risk individuals and is honored to support Food Dignity staff and an extensive base of volunteers as they further elevate the lives of Northeastern Pennsylvania's most vulnerable. Chet's public service includes serving as treasurer of the Back Mountain Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the advisory board for King's College PA Smart OPEN Project, created to expand STEM opportunities to graduate students. Chet earned his MBA with a concentration in finance from Lehigh University and his BS in molecular biology from King's College, Wilkes-Barre. Chet also holds certifications in Six Sigma, and Human Resources.
Nancy Fera
Nancy Fera is Vice President of Foodservice for InterMetro Industries. Before taking her current role, Nancy started her career there in 1997 in the Finance Department as a Staff Accountant and soon realized her passion was working with customers and quickly moved to the Sales and Marketing Team and currently leads the company’s sales team.
Nancy’s true passion is cooking. She spends the majority of her free-time cooking for her family and friends in need of home-cooked meals. Most recently Nancy combined her love for cooking and volunteering by helping to expand the food program with the Hillside Farms Grief Camp to include homemade meals. The program was possible through the hard work of many people and organizations and focused on highlighting her belief that sharing meals with people provides a safe place, a sense of community and is critical to providing the foundation to feel comfortable sharing experiences.
Nancy has a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting with a minor in Economics from Kings College and a MBA from Wilkes University in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing.
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