Speakers
Jennifer Dworkin Vigran
CEO, Second Helpings
Jennifer Dworkin Vigran is CEO of Second Helpings, an Indianapolis-based community kitchen and culinary job training program dedicated to transforming lives through the power of food. Through its three programs—food rescue, hunger relief, and culinary job training—Second Helpings provides nutritious meals for thousands of hungry children and adults every day, and has trained 450 unemployed and under-employed adults for careers in the culinary industry. Before coming to Second Helpings, Ms. Vigran worked in human resources and labor relations in both the public and private sectors and previously served as Indiana’s state personnel director and vice president of human resources for Support Net. A long-time volunteer and board member, Ms. Vigran worked extensively in both Second Helpings’ hunger relief and culinary job training programs and called upon her human resources background to help hundreds of students build job search and interviewing skills. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College and has a master’s degree in labor and human resources from Ohio State University.
