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8th Class Capstone Project Complete!

Justice, Prejudice and Asparagus: Stories for the Stage About Hunger and Poverty

The 8th class of National Hunger Fellows would like to introduce you to these "stories for the stage" based on their experience as Hunger Fellows. During their fellowship, Fellows worked on a wide array of issues: nutrition, homelessness, race, community organizing, small-scale farming, and healthcare. Upon completion of the fellowship, each year Fellows complete a capstone project. This project is designed to share the collective diversity of their experiences, thoughts, knowledge, and questions with future Fellows, the greater anti-hunger community, and the general public.

Fellows have contributed creative pieces that uniquely express her or his evolving ideas* on why hunger and other social inequities persist and how we can work cooperatively to alleviate these injustices. Some of these monologues are based on actual events and others are fictional stories that exemplify specific issues.

Complete text of Justice, Prejudice and Asparagus

* Justice, Prejudice and Asparagus is a creative work by the 8th class of Hunger Fellows. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the Congressional Hunger Center, any supporting organization, or any single member of the program.