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Full Alphabetical listing:
Etan Newman
Field Placement: Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara & San Mateo Counties (San Jose, CA)
Etan worked to identify barriers that prevent eligible residents of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties from accessing the Food Stamp Program. He collected information from clients, staff, and partner agencies in each of the food bank’s nine geographic service areas in order to evaluate the success of ongoing food stamp outreach efforts and pinpoint areas where the food bank could expand, improve, or change strategies.
Hunger Free Community Report: Struggling for Sustenance: Barriers to SNAP/Food Stamps in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties details the hardships eligible households face in trying to access food stamps. Based on 400 surveys and 40 interviews with food bank clients and partner agencies, the report provides recommendations for steps that national, state, and county governments, in partnership with local organizations, can take to overcome or eliminate these barriers.
Policy Placement: The Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.)
Etan is working with the Metropolitan Policy Program to research the causes and implications of suburban poverty in US metropolitan areas. He is drafting a case study narrative of suburban poverty in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that will serve as a template for further case studies around the country.
Education and Experience: Originally from Minnesota, Etan graduated from Brown University in 2009 with a degree in history. He has worked to connect low-income families to social services, taught about the Holocaust in high schools, interned at the Poverty Institute, and lobbied for the rights of undocumented immigrant students. Etan also studied human and civil rights issues in Israel, Denmark, and South Africa, and conducted research on the teaching of apartheid history in South African high schools.
Tim Shadix
Field Placement: California Association of Food Banks (Oakland, CA)
Tim researched SNAP/food stamps outreach, application assistance, and online application programs in California to document diverse and innovative strategies for increasing SNAP enrollment through the expansion of “out-of-office” application options. He also created a resource toolkit for new SNAP outreach providers and surveyed community-based organizations about the ways in which California’s finger imaging requirement for SNAP applicants impact outreach efforts.
Hunger Free Community Report: Opening New Doors to Ending Hunger: Out-of-Office Food Stamp Applications in California documents how county agencies and community-based organizations around the state are partnering to increase application options for clients by offering application assistance, posting county workers in community centers, and developing online application systems.
Policy Placement: Migrant Legal Action Program (Washington, D.C.)
Tim is working in coalition with many organizations to monitor how federal nutrition policies and regulations affect program access for migrant, immigrant, and Limited English Proficient populations. He is also conducting a nationwide survey of Migrant Education Program and Community Health Center providers to assess malnutrition levels and health and nutrition program utilization among migrant children.
Education and Experience: Originally from Ashland, OR, Tim graduated from Whitman College in 2009 with a degree in politics. He organized a field study and conference on clean water access in rural India, led a project to strengthen networks among Oaxacan migrant hometown associations in the Pacific Northwest, and conducted quantitative research on Latino voting rights in eastern Washington. Tim also organized a student voter registration campaign and wrote his honors thesis on the emerging role of social entrepreneurship in addressing poverty in developing countries.
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