Food Systems Major

December 20, 2024

Basilica Bio: MINT Formative Evaluation Project

Students partnered with Basilica Bio, a Pacific Northwest-based organization with a mission to support local food systems, de-pollution, and overall community health. The project involved conducting interviews with local farm partners and analyzing the results to help guide the nonprofit’s Meals in Need Today (MINT) program. Community Partner: Isis Garcia, Lexi Rohrer, and Lauren Sarkissian,…

Alimentando al Pueblo: Survey and Food Program Analysis and Recommendations

Students collaborated with Alimentando al Pueblo (AAP), a Burien-based food bank dedicated to supporting the Latinx and BIPOC community, to enhance their impact by strengthening evaluations and assessments and establishing data collection systems. The project involved creating a new survey, analyzing previous survey data and the organization’s food bank program, and identifying areas for improvement….

Connecting Through Data: Alimentando al Pueblo’s Partner Story

Students collaborated with Alimentando al Pueblo (AAP), a Burien-based food bank dedicated to supporting the Latinx and BIPOC community, to create a mid-year and end-of-year impact assessment survey for their 15 business partners. Other contributions included social media content and blog posts detailing student experiences working with AAP, as well as conducting informational interviews. Throughout…

November 25, 2024

Chenell Coppock

Tell us about your background and why you chose UW? I grew up in Williamsburg, VA, where I was immersed in a culture rich with ancestral history, yet often found historical narratives altered in textbooks. My background includes varied roles in the food and hotel industry, working as an Army medic, and teaching. After moving…

October 9, 2024

Alex Ball

Tell us about your background and why you chose UW? I actually came to UW to study marine biology, and there aren’t many opportunities for that in the Midwest! Even after I changed my path, I still wanted to move somewhere else to grow as an individual person. What influenced you to major in Food…

May 1, 2024

Creating a Photovoice Methodology: Documenting Food Insecurity Among UW Students

Students worked with UW researchers to outline a photovoice study examining food insecurity among college students. The team read and analyzed peer-reviewed journals on the photovoice technique, food insecurity, and other related topics, then created a step-by-step process for the potential photovoice study to be approved by the Institutional Review Board. The goal of the…

Examining Research on College Student Food Security

Students researched food insecurity among college students (focusing on the past 5 years) and how racial plays a role, compiling their findings into an annotated bibliography that will be submitted for IRB certification as part of a future UW research project. The team also organized their annotations into an accessible public database, which includes the…

Policies to Support College Student Food Security: Legislative Fact Sheets

Students worked with WashPIRG to advance the creation and support of a bill to sustainably address college student food insecurity. The team created three legislative fact sheets highlighting the severity, urgency, and inequity of the current landscape of student food insecurity in King County, Washington state, and the United States as a whole. Community Partner: Beatrice…

Policies to Support College Student Food Security: Legislation in Other Countries

WashPIRG sought support to investigate and present concise information about potential policies from other countries that could be implemented in Washington to support college student food security. The team focused on researching legislation from the top eight countries with the highest food security and lobbied with WashPIRG on their hunger and homelessness legislation. Community Partner:…

Equitable Food Security Policies in the U.S.

Students supported WashPIRG’s work to leverage the food policy system to address growing rates of student food insecurity by analyzing legislation from across the United States to synthesize possible campus hunger reduction frameworks. The team also participated in WashPIRG’s lobbying activities to contextualize their research, and produced 13 summaries for the organization and other stakeholders…

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