Agnes Molnar is a legend in the field of child nutrition. A tireless advocate of issues surrounding child poverty and hunger since the 1970s, she is still going strong.

Agnes worked at Community Food Resource Center from 1981 to 2003, as the Director of the Child Nutrition Unit, and successfully convinced New York City officials to implement the first pilot Universal School Lunch program in 1990. She also was instrumental in securing the City’s commitment to provide free school breakfasts to all public school students, regardless of family income, and to expand the Summer Food Service Program to include city parks, swimming pools and public housing complexes. 

Agnes received USDA funding to implement a model nutrition education program that linked classroom hands-on activities to the school lunch program. The program evolved into the CookShop Program, a groundbreaking nutrition education program that continues to provide in-school activities as well as nutrition and cooking workshops for low-income adults in community organizations. 

She still works at CFA, the organization she co-founded with Kathy Goldman in 2010, as a Senior Advisor. 

Agnes has a Masters degree in Nutrition in Public Health from Columbia Teachers College and received her undergraduate degree in Sociology from Brooklyn College. A devoted mother and grandmother, she and her husband live in Manhattan.