Food Systems Major

May 1, 2024

Identifying Funding Structures for the UW Food Pantry

Through extensive research and outreach, students investigated different funding models and support systems used by food pantries across the country to identify potential sustainable funding structures for the UW Food Pantry. Their goal was to help enhance the Pantry’s capacity to support student well-being and academic success, fostering a more sustainable and equitable campus environment….

Funding Food Security for the Local UW Community

Due to rising food insecurity rates on the UW Seattle campus, the UW Food Pantry – which provides low-barrier food access to all UW students, faculty, and staff – asked the team to help locate sustainable funding resources to better address the increase the demand for their services. The team collaborated with the Pantry to…

Rescuing and Gleaning: Creating a Framework for Building Community Partnerships

Students supported the UW Food Pantry’s mission of reducing food insecurity on campus by creating a “partnership-building framework” to help facilitate new relationships between the organization and community businesses. The team used Public Health – Seattle & King County’s restaurant safety rating database and Google Maps data to determine whether a potential business-pantry partnership was…

Guide to Gleaning: Enhancing Food Recovery at the University of Washington

In addition to sourcing food through donations and donor-based funding, the organization UW Food Pantry rescues and gleans food to increase the amount of resources they can provide for the community while simultaneously combating food waste. Students collaborated with the UW Food Pantry to improve and streamline their current gleaning process: they updated, synthesized, and…

Food Security Beyond the College Campus

Students worked with the UW Food Pantry to investigate food security resources specific to students at the University of Washington. These resources and a brief introduction to food insecurity were incorporated into easy-to-read, multilingual e-pamphlets and brochures available on the organization’s website. Community Partner: Maggie O’Brien, UW Food Pantry

UW Food Pantry: A Social Media Initiative for Food Security Awareness

Students worked with the UW Food Pantry to create social media content that amplified the organization’s online presence and informed audiences about the impacts of food insecurity on college campuses. The team built upon the Pantry’s pre-existing strategies to generate informative Instagram posts, reels, and stories containing educational information on food insecurity; how the Pantry…

March 27, 2024

Valerie Lam

Tell us about your background and why you chose UW? I was born and raised in Hong Kong; a city rich in diversity. I chose to come to the United States for my education—particularly the UW—because the UW School of Public Health (SPH) is highly ranked as one of the best schools for public health…

November 20, 2023

Elissa Fong

Tell us about your background and why you chose UW? I am a second generation Chinese American from Pasadena, California. My family is from Hong Kong where food is a big part of our culture. What drew me to UW was the broad range of subjects that I could study and the variety of unique…

August 26, 2023

Carlos Morales

As a business owner of a small restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, Carlos Morales sourced foods from a local farmers market. When Morales shared with his customers the story of where the food came from, he noticed both their disconnect with the land and their desire to understand how food is produced. From those conversations, Morales…

June 27, 2023

Pike Place Food Access Intern

Gained practical experience in addressing food insecurity and promoting access to healthy food options in the community. Assisted with a variety of seasonal programs aimed at providing fresh produce to community members who may not have regular access, including distributing weekly produce allotments, educating people with limited resources on how to choose healthy food options…

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