Work in Progress: Karen Pittman & Claire Babineaux-Fontenot

Drama Queens

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4.9 • 23.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

The Holidays are here, a time of joyous celebrations, delicious foods, and gift-giving. However, for millions of Americans, it's a time of stress and worry about where their next meal will come from. Food insecurity is not just a holiday issue but a year-round crisis, and Feeding America is tirelessly working to end hunger one meal at a time.

Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America, and award-winning actress and advocate Karen Pittman join Sophia for an emotional and revealing chat about the country's hunger crisis and how Feeding America is working to combat it. Karen also opens up about her own experiences with food insecurity over a decade ago as a single mom, the shame and fear she felt, how the experience shaped her perspective and activism, and the joy and healing energy from volunteering and making a difference.

Ready to make a difference? You can donate, volunteer, or learn more about Feeding America's mission at feedingamerica.org.

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0:29.9	hi everyone it's sophia welcome to work in progress.
0:47.6	Happy holidays, whipsmarties.
0:52.6	As we get toward the end of this year, I've really been thinking about this community that we all share and the stories we
0:55.5	get to share and I really cherish you all. And I think I wanted to end the year with a conversation
1:01.5	that felt worthy, I guess, of a year ending and inspiring. And that's why I'm so thrilled today to be joined by two women.
1:12.8	I admire so, so much the incredible Karen Pittman and Claire Babineau Fontenow.
1:20.5	You probably know Karen Pittman because she is a wildly accomplished actress in television, film,
1:26.9	in theater. She stars as Mia Jordan on Apple's
1:31.3	award-winning The Morning Show. She also plays Dr. Nia Wallace on Max's and Just Like That.
1:39.3	Pittman's resume is so long. I'm not going to read the whole thing to you, but my God, I just look up to her so much
1:46.2	as an actor, as a producer. She is truly incredible. And today she brings a friend and another
1:54.2	woman that I look up to, Claire Babineau, Fontenot. She is the chief executive officer of
2:00.4	Feeding America, America's largest organization
2:04.5	combating food insecurity. They run a network of local food banks, statewide food bank associations,
2:11.3	food pantries, meal programs, and they happen to be the largest charity in the United States since 2022.
2:19.3	Under her incredible guidance, the organization has reached new milestones in addressing
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