A Hard-Won Battle for Hungry Students

One of my first assignments when I started my fellowship almost a year ago was attend a meeting of the Lunch 4 Learning campaign. Still in its infancy back then, one of the departing GHC fellows at Single Stop literally handed me a folder and said “We’ve done some of the background research for this. […]

Snap Back to Reality — Why Cutting Funding for SNAP Cuts Our Nation’s Progress

On August 28th, 1963, almost 300,000 people marched on the nation’s capital to listen to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver the most powerful demand to end racism in history. On January 8th, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared the official intent of the United States government to put an end to poverty. We’re half a […]

Learning to Put the “Social” in “Social Media”

It seems a little like cheating to write my first blog post about, well, blogging. But I’ve been thinking back about a week-long period last month that revolved in one way or another around social media that it’s really the only thing I can think of to talk about. I’ve never been one to blog. […]