A special thank you to @BaldorFood for supporting ESYNYC across all our schools. Recently, at P.S. 216 in Brooklyn, Baldor’s generous donation of ingredients has continued to allow us to foster students’ love for healthy food and cooking. Students have enjoyed crafting refreshing foods like smashed cucumber salad and sushi rolls (they even selected which ingredients to place within the sushi rolls!). 🍣 Students also loved requesting foods from their cultural backgrounds and cooked baleadas, a food from Honduras. Thank you Baldor for your support of our classroom programming! (fb)

Edible Schoolyard NYC is thrilled to welcome Anne Valentine Andrews to our Board of Directors! As Global Head of Private Markets at Manulife and a passionate advocate for food education, Anne will join ESYNYC’s Board & team as we strive to provide every student with access to healthy food. 🍎 Anne is the Global Head of Private Markets, based in New York City. In this role, she’s responsible for the strategy, business development, and growth of Manulife Investment Management’s private markets business, which includes real estate, infrastructure, timber, agriculture, private equity, and credit. She also leads the private markets investment teams, bringing together the chief investment officers from each asset class in the business and working closely with the global product group to drive private markets product innovation across the institutional, retail, and retirement channels. Anne joined Manulife Investment Management from BlackRock, where she spent nine years in increasingly senior roles, most recently as Global Head of Infrastructure and Real Estate. Previously, she was Co-head and Chief Operating Officer for the Morgan Stanley infrastructure platform, and, prior to that, she was a Director at Macquarie Bank in both Melbourne and New York. (fb)