A Jasper Public School Nutrition Director is to be recognized this Thursday for her work in coordinating over a quarter million meals for children in need.
As a part of the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance 2025 Hunger Action Month breakfast being held Thursday in Little Rock, Jasper School Child Nutrition Director, Tina Byrd will be recognized with the Alliance’s Acting Out Against Hunger Award. The award is given each year to individuals, businesses, and non-profits across the state to honor outstanding service to the Alliance and the six Feeding America Food Bank’s serving Arkansas.
Byrd began her career in the food services department of Jasper Schools in 1997 in her words by, “starting at the bottom” working in the kitchen. By 2016 she had become the director of the district but tells KTLO News that it’s a whole team at the school that made the winning of the award possible…