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 Gagan Gupta
Field Placement: Second Harvest Food Bank of New Orleans and Acadiana (New Orleans, LA)
Gagan designed and implemented an emergency food distribution program to make healthy food products more available and convenient for senior citizens. He conducted a needs assessment of the region’s seniors, reviewed existing programs and services, secured funding for a pilot program, and laid the groundwork to support the program’s expansion.
Hunger Free Community Report: After the Storms: Turning the Spotlight on Senior Hunger explores the unique post-hurricane barriers to food security that seniors face, and provides empirically driven estimates of the number of seniors living in poverty throughout New Orleans and the surrounding region.
Policy Placement: RESULTS Educational Fund (Washington, D.C.)
As the domestic health policy fellow, Gagan is overseeing the 2008 Health Care for All Campaign and collaborating with numerous partner organizations in the effort to eliminate health disparities. He is also planning the health care plenary sessions for the RESULTS International Conference and developing long-term goals for the organization’s health policy work.
Education and Experience: Gagan is a 2007 graduate of Davidson College where he received a full-merit Baker Scholarship and earned a degree in political science. A native of Belmont, NC, he helped his local school system become one of the first in the country to eliminate junk food from its vending machines. Gagan served on Davidson’s student government for four years, and was senior class president. He helped organize a student social change movement on campus, conducted research on protracted conflicts in Sudan and the Horn of Africa, taught English and volunteered at a food pantry in Spain, and conducted research on nutrition and water sanitation in refugee camps in India.
 Adrienne Alexander
Field Placement: Second Harvest Food Bank of New Orleans and Acadiana (New Orleans, LA)
Adrienne organized community members for an Acadiana Community Food Security Conference and established a regional food policy coalition in the Lake Charles and Lafayette metropolitan areas of southwest Louisiana. She also laid the groundwork for an Agency Advisory Council to advise the Food Bank on issues of importance to member agencies.
Hunger Free Community Report: Fighting Hunger with Policy: A Model for Establishing a Food Policy Coalition includes profiles of the Acadiana Food Policy Coalition’s ten parishes, practical notes on organizing, materials from the Acadiana Community Food Security Conference, and recommendations.
Policy Placement: Center for Community Change (Washington, D.C.)
Adrienne is helping to inform the low-wage work division’s 2009 policy agenda by working with coalition members, tracking legislation, and researching existing models. Adrienne is also writing materials about the right to organize, the enforcement of existing labor laws, the minimum wage, and workforce development issues.
Education and Experience: Adrienne graduated from Agnes Scott College in 2007 with a degree in political science and minors in Spanish and history. She served as captain of the tennis team, launched her college’s chapter of Rock the Vote, and was an active member of Latinas Unidas. Adrienne has interned with the Atlanta City Council and WABE radio (Atlanta's NPR affiliate), volunteered teaching English to Latin American immigrants, and studied abroad in Oviedo, Spain. In 2006 Adrienne was named a Public Policy and International Affairs Fellow.
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