Closing New Mexico’s Rural Food Gap

Joseph hails from western North Carolina and graduated with a degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Duke University in 2004.  At Duke, he co-founded The Duke-Durham Hunger Alliance, which collects “left-over” meal points and converts them into food for the regional food bank.  He has worked and volunteered at regional food banks in North Carolina, studied abroad in La Paz, Bolivia, interned with Student Action with Farmworkers migrant health outreach, and taught English in the suburbs of Tokyo, Japan.  Joseph is currently part of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Field Epidemiology Certificate Program.

Miles is a 2004 graduate of North Dakota State University, where he majored in anthropology and minored in political science.  He conducted research on traditional medicine and health care at an anthropological field school in Tanzania, interned for Congressman Earl Pomeroy in Washington, D.C., and was chosen as a delegate to the International Federation of Agriculture Producers Conference (IFAP) for his research paper on IFAP’s role in combating world hunger.  On campus, he started a weekend service trip program to a Native American reservation, led a service trip to San Francisco, and worked with Students for Social Justice and Support International.