The chair of the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank's board of directors said the nonprofit organization's new CEO is both well qualified and compassionate.

Kari Jorgensen Diener, a 25-year veteran of humanitarian aid, food security and community resilience, started her new position at the Verona-based food bank this past week. Politics

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“The more she talked and the more we talked to search consultants, she had been involved in a similar type of organizational structure and mission to the food bank,’’ Kim Blosser, chair of the food bank board, told The News Virginian.

Diener’s work with Mercy Corps in the Middle Eastern country of Jordan involved getting resources to the needy, much like the work reaching the fo

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