Kenneth Hecht
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Kenneth Hecht (1934- ) is an American public interest attorney. Hecht is an advocate for improved access to nutritious, affordable food on behalf of low-income people.
He was born in Baltimore, Maryland to Lucile and Malcolm Hecht. His father was an executive with the Hecht Company department stores. He grew up in Pikesville, Maryland and attended Friends School of Baltimore.
Upon completion of Dartmouth College and the Yale University law school, Hecht worked for fifteen years as a public interest attorney. Initially he worked at San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation and then as Executive Director of the San Francisco Legal Aid Society. At the Legal Aid Society, he played a leading role in establishing the Youth Law Center and the Employment Law Center, both of them specialized in test-case, law-reform offices.
Kenneth Hecht was one of the co-founders in 1992 of California Food Policy Advocates (CFPA), a nutrition policy and advocacy organization whose chief aims are the expansion and improvement of the federal food programs in order to eliminate hunger and prevent obesity. Hecht is Executive Director of CFPA. He works at its headquarters in San Francisco and lives in Berkeley with his wife Christina.
