Gleaners - Hunger & Health
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Speaker
Keynote Speaker
Fred Glass
Bio
Fred Glass is the President/CEO of Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, the state’s largest hunger relief organization and one of the leading food banks in the Feeding America Network. He has spent a career in various leadership roles where his values-based leadership and collaborative spirit have led to success.
Fred is a prominent Indianapolis attorney, most recently with Taft Law. Before joining Taft, Fred served as Vice President and Athletic Director for Indiana University from 2009 to 2020 where he led a cultural and physical rebuilding of the athletic program that led to academic, athletic, and fundraising successes.
His memoir, Making Your Own Luck: From a Skid Row Bar to Rebuilding Indiana University Athletics, is a powerful story focusing on personal empowerment and values-based leadership. Fred writes movingly about his father’s efforts to feed the hungry at his bar, including a young Fred and his family having holiday dinners at the bar with patrons who had nowhere else to go.
He and his wife Barbara live in Indianapolis and have four children and five grandchildren.
Panelists
Panelist
Virginia Caine , MD
Bio
Virginia A. Caine, MD is the Director and Chief Medical Officer of the Marion County Public Health Department. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Indiana University (IU) School of Medicine Infectious Diseases Division. She served as a Past President for the American Public Health Association and was the 125th President of the National Medical Association. She received the Bio Crossroads "2017 August M. Watanabe Life Sciences Champion of the Year"
Award as the first Black and first woman to receive this award and the Indiana Governor's highest award, Sagamore of the Wabash award for service. In 2020, the Indianapolis Business Journal (IBJ) named her as one of 40 Influential People of the past 40 years.
Dr. Caine works tirelessly to promote and advance public health through innovative programs and unprecedented collaborations. Her boundless energy, vision, and drive to serve people, especially disadvantaged areas, have led Dr. Caine to have her fingerprints on numerous projects.
Panelist
Jasmine Gonzalvo
Bio
Dr. Jasmine D. Gonzalvo, PharmD, MPH is the Chris and Theresa Dimos Director of the Center for Health Excellence, Quality, and Innovation and a Clinical Professor in the College of Pharmacy at Purdue University. She graduated with her Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in May 2025. She is the Executive Director of the Patterson-McCallum-Mareta Charitable Pharmacy onsite at Gleaners Food Bank. She provides cardiovascular risk reduction medication management services for Eskenazi Health Pecar Health Center for a largely Spanish-speaking population in a Federally Qualified Health Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. She has served on and chaired national Boards for diabetes organizations. She is currently on the Board of Directors of the Diabetes Leadership Council and is the President of the Indiana Community Health Workers Association. She is active in advocacy efforts at the State and Federal levels, most recently having served on the National Clinical Care Commission charged with making recommendations to improve diabetes across federal programs. She has received a variety of awards highlighting her excellence in practice and teaching throughout her career.
Panelist
Richard Gordon
Bio
Richard T. Gordon is the Director of Community Engagement at Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana. With extensive experience in community outreach, Richard excels at building meaningful partnerships and leading impactful collaborations that strengthen the community.
Richard earned a B.S. in Public Affairs from Indiana University Bloomington and an M.S. in Management from Indiana Wesleyan University. He is a proud father to two sons, Nicholas and Noah, and has been married to his wife, Kimberly Gordon, for over 20 years
Panelist
Ben Grande
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