Salaam Bhatti, Esq.

FRAC

Salaam Bhatti is the SNAP Director at FRAC. He joined the team in November 2023. Salaam has worked in social justice, public benefits, and human rights for more than 11 years.

Before joining FRAC, he was the public benefits attorney and deputy director of the Virginia Poverty Law Center (VPLC), where he specialized in public benefits law. During his term, he directed the development of a SNAP eligibility calculator to make it more accessible to households with low incomes in Virginia (now available nationwide at SNAPscreener.com), lobbied the state assembly to effectively champion bipartisan efforts to extend SNAP eligibility to over 25,000 households, to enhance access to Child Nutrition Programs, and repeal laws that denied SNAP and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to those with drug felonies.

He also served as director of Virginia Hunger Solutions, a project of VPLC and FRAC, where he focused on expanding the Community Eligibility Provision into Virginia's schools so that children could receive free school meals. Salaam lives in Richmond, VA with his wife, two sons, and a fishing pole that he swears he will use.

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