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- Witnesses to Hunger Photo Exhibit on Capitol Hill
  
  Mar 26, 2014
  “Witnesses to Hunger,” a groundbreaking project featuring the voices and photography of parents and caregivers who have experienced hunger and poverty first-hand, is returning to the nation’s capital on April 3 and 4.
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- Mariana Chilton Appointed to National Commission on Hunger
  
  Feb 12, 2014
  Mariana Chilton, PhD, an associate professor in the School of Public Health, was appointed to the National Commission on Hunger. As part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014 (H.R.3547), the 10-member commission focuses on developing new innovative methods to help solve the looming concern of hunger in the U.S.
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- Drexel Program Participant Tianna Gaines-Turner Gets a Seat at the State of the Union
  
  Jan 27, 2014
  Tianna Gaines-Turner, a low-income mother of three children from North Philadelphia, will attend the State of the Union address as a guest of Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey on Jan. 28, the Senator announced today. Her attendance marks a new achievement of a Drexel program raising the voices of families living in poverty to gain a place in the national conversation.
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- Witnesses to Hunger 5 Year Anniversary
  
  Dec 03, 2013
  Since 2008, the “Witnesses to Hunger” program at the Drexel University School of Public Health has sought to bring the true experts — those with first-hand experience — into the conversation about hunger and poverty by equipping caregivers of young children with digital cameras to document hunger and poverty.
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- Witnesses to Hunger Photo Exhibit Opens Lens on Hunger and Poverty in Camden
  
  Sep 11, 2013
  Through their desire for social change, ten women from Camden, N.J. have opened a lens on hunger, homelessness, health and a broad swath of issues related to poverty. Their photos and interview-based testimony, collected as part of the “Witnesses to Hunger” project based at the Center for Hunger-Free Communities at Drexel University School of Public Health, will be on public display in Camden for the first time this month.
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- Camden Women Raise Hunger Awareness through Photo Project and Exhibit
  
  Jun 11, 2013
  Drexel's "Witnesses to Hunger" program is debuting in Camden with support from the Campbell Healthy Communities Program. There, 10 women have taken up digital cameras to share their stories about hunger and food insecurity and raising children in a city often named one of America's most impoverished and most dangerous.
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- A Philadelphia Witness to Hunger Takes the Spotlight in a Documentary Film on Hunger in America
  
  Feb 19, 2013
  Drexel University's public health research into the health effects and complex causes of hunger and food insecurity are prominently featured in a new documentary film, A Place at the Table. The film profiles Barbie Izquierdo, a participant in Drexel's "Witnesses to Hunger" program and includes expert commentary from Dr. Mariana Chilton.
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- Witnesses to Hunger in Baltimore
  
  Oct 16, 2012
  A “Witnesses to Hunger” exhibit, featuring the photographs of parents from Baltimore, Boston, and Philadelphia who have experienced hunger and poverty first-hand, will run through October in Baltimore. It is one of multiple ways anti-hunger advocates are coming together this month to raise awareness about the challenges of living in or near poverty and to fight hunger in Maryland.
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- "Witnesses to Hunger" Exhibit Displays Women's Photographic Testimony Poverty
  
  Apr 26, 2012
  Working mothers, poverty and opportunity are powerful themes in the national political conversation. On May 2, a public exhibit will display photos and videos from women whose voices are too often missing from this dialogue: those who have experienced poverty and hunger first-hand. These “Witnesses to Hunger” are participants in a powerful research and advocacy project developed at the Drexel University School of Public Health.
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- Witnesses to Hunger Goes National with Boston Exhibit
  
  Mar 05, 2012
  A powerful research and advocacy project developed at the Drexel University School of Public Health featuring the voices and photography of women who have experienced hunger and poverty first-hand, is now expanding with the opening of “Witnesses to Hunger - Boston.”
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