Rescheduled for Tuesday, February 26th at 2pm in Martin 158 or https://ewu.zoom.us/j/785796216 for live stream.
Please join us as we explore the issue of food insecurity here at EWU and in the Spokane community.
Our panelists include:
- Key Baker, McNair Scholar, Africana Studies
- Arick Erechar, Community Outreach Coordinator, EWU Office of Community Engagement
- Lisa Logan, EWU Women’s and Gender Education Center Manager
- Drew Meuer, Chief Development Officer, Second Harvest
- Just added! Dante Tyler, President of Associated Students of Eastern Washington University (ASEWU)
“I believe that equal access to healthy, affordable food should be a civil right – every bit as important as access to clean air, clean water, or the right to vote.”
— Will Allen, author of The Good Food Revolution (2013, p. 7)
Suggested Readings
News articles:
- Report: College Students Are Hungry And Government Programs Could Do More To Help — NPR article from January 10, 2019 on the GAO Report below
- Millions of College Students Are Going Hungry — Atlantic Magazine piece, from January 9, 2019
GAO Report:
- Food Insecurity: Better Information Could Help Eligible College Students Access Federal Food Assistance Benefits — released on December 21, 2018. Senator Patty Murray was one of the senators that asked for the research to be done.
Recent studies that were cited in the GAO Report above:
- Hungry to Learn: Addressing Food and Housing Insecurity Among Undergraduates — Wisconsin Hope Lab (December 2015)
- Broton, K.M., Weaver, K. E., Mai, M. (2018). Hunger in higher education: Experiences and correlates of food insecurity among Wisconsin undergraduates from low-income families, Social Sciences 7(10), 179. doi.org/10.3390/socsci7100179
- Hungry and Homeless in College: Results from a National Study of Basic Needs Insecurity in Higher Education — Wisconsin Hope Lab (March 2017)
- Still Hungry and Homeless in College — Wisconsin Hope Lab (2018)
