Lori Silverbush used "A Place at the Table" to launch "a national movement for food justice, and become a leading voice advocating for citizen activism and food policy reform as linchpins of a just society" (via Food is Fuel). She and her husband, Tom Colicchio, are working together on Food is Fuel, a foundation striving to end national hunger and make it a priority for legislators.
"You can't have enough fundraisers. You can't do enough drives," Colicchio told CBS News. "It's a people's movement that needs to happen, and I think if enough people decide that this is unacceptable in this country, it'll force politicians to take notice."
When not fighting hunger, Silverbush and Colicchio are focused on family, which includes Dante, Colicchio's son from a past relationship, and Luka and Mateo, whom he shares with Silverbush (per People). The family lives in a renovated townhouse in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, which they purchased in 2019 because they wanted their kids to grow up in a more diverse neighborhood than Manhattan.
"I didn't feel like that would give us that wonderful thing that you get for raising kids in New York: You get to raise a real New Yorker," Silverbush told Today. "A real New Yorker to me isn't someone who's only ever met people who look and sound and think exactly like he or she does; it's the opposite."
