About
Food Fuels Minds aims to address food insecurity by stimulating interest in SNAP, New Jersey’s Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program. We interviewed college students who experience food insecurity and shared their stories with student artists, who created original works inspired by these narratives. By publishing these works in an original magazine, as well as displaying them on the school’s gallery spaces and windows, the project aims to engage the HCCC community in dialogue and awareness about food, hunger, health, and the availability of SNAP as a resource.
Facilitated by faculty at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and Mason Gross School of the Arts, in close collaboration with faculty, students, and administrators at Hudson County Community College. // This project was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. // For their support of the project, we thank Lisa Dougherty, Alison Wakefield, Michelle Vitale, David Clark, John Scanlon, Lisa Pitz, Darice Toon, and Student Advisory Board members Afnan Saleh, Covadonga Insuasti, Alyssa Carrillo, and Leandra Cancel. // Sincere thanks to all the student artists and art instructors who participated in this project. We are especially grateful to the students who shared their experiences of food insecurity.
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Team:
Stephanie Brescia
Sara Elnakib
Katherine Morales
Jeremiah Teipen
Delma Yorimoto
Art and Design Instructors:
Svetlana Bailey
Laurie Riccadonna
Jeremiah Teipen
Student artists and designers:
Kasey Arriaga, Gabriel Bauta, Enrique Bermejo, Halie R. Cancel, Guillermo Carrion, Abner Chavez, Simone Colta, Jaylen Daise, Rema Damedi, Yeferson Duran, Maritza A. Escamilla, Daniella Franco, Jihad Garvin, Leilani Greywolf, Jennifer Hernandez, Michael G. Herron, Kendry Hilario, Covadonga Insuasti, Brian Ixchop, Shishona Long, Cesar G. Mondragon, Nyellie P. Muniz, Travis E. Muniz, Eliza Nunez, Alicia Ovalle, Andre Pacheco, Wilson Parra, Lucas Pinheiro, Linner Rabadad, Roberto Ramirez, Leniel Minalla Rivera, Francois Rivero, Gabriel Rodriguez, Yulemni Rodriguez, Deryk Rosario, Afnan Saleh, Aris Schustrin, Mark Soliven, Alexandra Toczynski, Lesley E. Vazquez
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