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Sep 25, 2015 48 min

Episode 32: Debra Vizzi

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Debra Vizzi has made the amazing journey from foster child to chief executive. Now, she has taken the helm of the state’s largest anti-hunger and anti-poverty organization, the Community FoodBank of New Jersey, as its new President and CEO. Hunger was only one of the challenges Vizzi had to overcome as she was growing up. In this episode, Vizzi talks about how she was able to transcend her painful childhood to work for Terence Cardinal Cooke in New York City, achieve success in college and graduate school, and lead the charge against hunger and poverty in New Jersey.

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