Alyssa Hernandez is the founder of NO Hunger NOLA. As the sole founding member of No Hunger NOLA, Alyssa has refined the concept of a food-waste redistribution model over many years and specialties; from more than a decade in the hospitality industry to over five years in economics academia, her personal experiences with hunger have shaped her interests and unique professional direction. As a master’s student at Tulane, she has focused her research on food access issues in New Orleans, while her entrepreneurial successes have empowered her to help tackle nutritional inequities on both a local and systemic level.