Growing Health and Wealth: Food Stamp Outreach in the Central Valley and Beyond

Dennis graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame with a double major in political science and history in the Honors Program.  He tutored youth in South Bend, worked with the student run national publication Changing Times, served as dorm president, and organized a weeklong program encouraging students to employ their talents in the service of others.  Dennis also founded a Notre Dame Chapter of the Children's Defense Fund, and interned in D.C. with Human Rights Watch and the Children's Defense Fund.

Laura graduated from Bowdoin College in 2004 with a BA in sociology and Spanish.  She served on the Common Good Grant Committee and was involved in a variety of volunteer programs on poverty and education at Bowdoin.  She studied abroad in La Paz, Bolivia, interned at a family support center, raised funds through the San Francisco AIDS Walk, and led middle-schoolers in community service activities at a camp in her hometown of Palo Alto, California.