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Challenge. Change. Podcast

Food as a tool for transformative change

Anti-hunger work leads alum to prepare brief for White House
January 24, 2023
By Melissa Hanson


 
Max De Faria ’20 can remember what it was like to not have enough food at home as a child, an experience empowering their dedication to anti-hunger work. De Faria strives to create an equitable food system, which they describe as the process from which food starts as a seed, ends up on your plate, and returns to the ground. This mission steered De Faria to an internship last summer at Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic and they helped prepare a brief for the White House Conference on Hunger and Nutrition.

Max De Faria ’20
Max De Faria ’20

“I draw on my own experiences of hunger and poverty to encourage other folks to think of food as an incredibly powerful tool we can use to tell our own stories and to create change at the same time,” De Faria says.

Tomatoes are De Faria’s favorite food. They recommend “Who Really Feeds the World?” by Vandana Shiva to anyone interested in learning more about food justice and sustainability.

Challenge. Change. is produced by Andrew Hart and Melissa Hanson for Clark University. Listen and subscribe on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Find other episodes wherever you listen to podcasts.

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