2025 Cohort

Meet the 2025 REACH Fellows!

The REACH Fellowship is a 6-month program that seeks to increase access to networks and resources among leaders from communities at the highest risk or burden of chronic diseases, who are innovating food systems change. The REACH Fellowship will be modeled after the Nourishing Power Fellowship. The Swetland Center and Catalytic Change Link will engage four teams, each with a grower or nutrition educator and a clinical partner, to tailor produce prescription programs to increase reach among those at the highest risk or burden of chronic diseases in Cuyahoga County. Each team will co-develop a program to pitch at the REACH Fellowship Ceremony in July 2025, aiming for implementation at a clinical site soon thereafter. The fellowship seeks to expand and sustain produce prescription programs that enhance food freedom, agency, and dignity in food traditions, promote wealth building among communities at the highest risk or burden of chronic diseases as program implementers, and achieve healthcare savings for providers and insurers.

First Workshop: February 4, 2025

Graduation Ceremony: July 15, 2025

Interested in connecting with the fellows? Email us at reach@case.edu


photos of Holly Davenport and Kelli Littlejohn

 

 

 
Holly Davenport

Owner/Creator of That Brown Girl Spice

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  • Instagram: @Thatbrowngirl_spice
Dr. Kelli Littlejohn, DNP, CNP

CEO of Dove Legacy Health & Co-Founder of The Camryn Averie Foundation

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  • Instagram: @dove.legacy.health
  • Facebook: Dove Legacy Health, LLC
Click here to learn more about Holly & Kelli's produce prescription program.

photos of BreJona Whitlock (Collinwood Friends Garden) and Kedon Newton (Cleveland Clinic)

 

BreJona Whitlock

Food Justice Coordinator at Collinwood Friends Garden

Kedon Newton MD, MBA

Addiction Medicine Psychiatrist at Cleveland Clinic

Click here to learn more about BreJona & Kedon's produce prescription program. 

photos of Beverly Cody (Wholistic Alchemy) & Asya Aretskin-Hariton (MetroHealth)

 

 

Beverly Cody

Urban Grower and Naturopathic Healer at Wholistic Alchemy

Asya Aretskin-Hariton

Clinical Coordinator at the MetroHealth Food as Medicine Clinic

Click here to learn more about Beverly & Asya's produce prescription program.

photos of Tim Lewis and Veronica Walton

 

 

 
Timothy Lewis

Outreach Director at Rid-All Green Partnership

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  • Social Media: 
    • @ridallgreenpartnership
    • @reverbwellness
Veronica Walton, RDH

Executive Director for Food Depot to Health

Click here to learn more about Tim & Veronica's produce prescription program.