Glastonbury native Hillary Cohen, who has been named a 2025 CNN Hero of the Year finalist, had a big idea around food insecurity and founded a nonprofit to help solve the food crisis.

The 40-year-old entrepreneur co-founded the nonprofit Every Day Action back in 2020. The nonprofit, which is based in Los Angeles, donates leftover food from film sets that was not eaten to those in need across the city. Cohen said the idea first started back in 2009 when she was working on a film set and saw large amounts of food being thrown away.

“I kind of immediately got this idea in my head and started asking why so much perfectly good food was being thrown away,” Cohen said. “The explanation I was always given was that’s just the way it is. I was even told that it couldn’t be donated out of cauti

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