Innovative Ways to Address Food Justice Challenges
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Everything starts with an idea. Every year, the University of San Diego community meets for the Changemaker Challenge, an ideas competition that gives students, faculty, and staff the opportunity to let their imaginations run wild and tackle some of humanity’s most pressing challenges.
This year’s challenge, hosted by the Changemaker Hub, focused on food justice, with participants submitting their ideas to support two community partners – Farm Forward and Bayside Community Center.
More than 260 undergraduate students entered the competition, creating two- to three-minute videos describing how their ideas would address the food justice challenges of community partners. In the end, a total of 105 ideas were submitted. From these submissions, 10 finalist teams were selected and on December 2nd, six were chosen as winners:
Farm Forward Challenge winner
- Oat milk initiative:
- Team members: Catalina Martinez and Julia Kanamine Surrick
- idea: To implement the use of oat milk as the standard for all USD beverages on campus.
- Give the problem a face:
- Team members: Daniella Clark, Sophie Bierly, Juliana Guerra and Rebecca Onken
- idea: Examining the Impact of Industrial Animal Husbandry on Marginalized Communities and How to Make University Students aware of the Reality.
Bayside Community Center Challenge winner
- Pick up at the roadside:
- Team members: Sofia Hart, Abdullah Albenali, Alexis Statzula and Natalie Zachariou
- idea: To support Bayside and the Linda Vista community by providing schools and businesses with additional grocery collection points to alleviate transportation issues and raise awareness in the community.
Food Studies Initiative winner
- Core curriculum for food justice:
- Team members: Laura Franceschi, Austin Esser and Cassidy Bates
- idea: To introduce a food justice class into the USD core curriculum.
- Vegetarian standard setting:
- Team members: Phillip Miller and Sarah Carter
- idea: To make dinner options vegetarian by default at USD, prioritize vegetarian options and ensure the food stations include vegetarian options.
Each of the winning teams received an award worth $ 500. In the future, the Changemaker Hub will work in collaboration with Farm Forward and the Bayside Community Center to fund and test the winning ideas of the Changemaker Challenge.
To learn more about the annual Changemaker Challenge, please visit www.changemakerchallenge.me.
– USD News Center
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