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Gina Plata-Nino, JD

SNAP Deputy Director
Food Research & Action Center, United States

Gina works as FRAC’s SNAP Deputy Director to seek ways to improve SNAP’s reach and support for low-income households, including people and families working their way up the economic ladder. She helps produce and direct production of appropriate information, technical assistance, analysis, training, strategic advice, and other hands-on support to national, state and community-based organizations, state and local government agencies, private nonprofit organizations and activists regarding ways to strengthen SNAP’s access, benefit adequacy, reach, and quality customer service. She also helps evaluate the effects of existing or proposed legislation, regulations, policies and practices in order to determine ways to defend, improve and expand SNAP’s positive impacts.

Prior to joining FRAC she worked as a consulting attorney with the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute and a staff attorney with the Central West Justice Center. Gina began her career by clerking at the Massachusetts State Appeals Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the first circuit. She serves in various boards in her community and is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law.

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