As FNCS Under Secretary, Bost was responsible for the administration of the fifteen USDA nutrition assistance programs with a combined budget of over $58 billion, including the Food Stamp Program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), the National School ...
she founded Health People as a peer-educator-driven organization that supported women with AIDS. Norwood had been a journalist who reported extensively on the AIDS epidemic ravaging New York in the 1980s, and she saw, at the time, how few programs existed to help those in the most pain. ...