Joel Anderson is a Master of Public Administration candidate at the University of Washington (UW)’s Evans School of Public Policy & Governance and serves as Policy Director for the UW Graduate and Professional Student Senate. As a member of the 27th Class of Emerson Hunger Fellows, he researched the impacts … Read more

Maria Wrabel is the Power of Nutrition Research Project Coordinator at Action Against Hunger USA, where she is leading an upcoming study to improve acute malnutrition treatment in Ethiopia. As a Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellow (2019-2021), Maria worked with Action Against Hunger USA in South Sudan and the US, … Read more

Yesenia Jimenez (she/ella) is a Policy Associate at GRACE/End Child Poverty in California. Originally from South Central Los Angeles, Yesenia moved into the Ramona Garden Housing Projects in Boyle Heights where her passion to abolish poverty grew. Yesenia began her career in policy as an undergraduate student working to end … Read more