Illustrating Hunger and Homelessness: Mary Baumgartner

Art by Nelle Rhicard at reframeideas.com.

A group of University of Minnesota Duluth faculty, students, and community artists came together to explore strategies to communicate the stories of frontline workers in housing and food insecurity. For example, UMD students met Mary Baumgartner who worked at the Chum Food Shelf in Duluth.

Learn more about this project at z.umn.edu/unsungheroes.

When you spend your time with the people at these organizations, you learn how hunger and housing affect real people, and you learn what ways work best to address people’s needs.

CHUM
Loaves and Fishes
Agate Community Housing
Joint Religious Legislative Coalition
North American Traditional indigenous Food Systems
First Ladies of the Hillside
Damiano Community Center
Family Freedom Center

The National Right to Food Community of Practice is a group of scholars and activists looking to end hunger and make food a basic right in the United States.

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