“Growing Change” Receives Runner Up in Campus Challenge

ENVS Majors Oliver Edelson ’18 and Alexandra Scalfani ’18, and other Growing Change students have won runner up in the Plate of the Union Campus Challenge.

Plate of the Union – a grassroots campaign calling for bold action to reform the nation’s food system – today announced the winners of its student-driven organizing effort, the Campus Challenge. A team from the Ohio State University (Columbus, OH) was awarded with the grand prize of $5,000 to execute its campus outreach plan to drive engagement around food issues in the 2016 election, as well as winning a visit to their campus from Tom Colicchio and other prominent food leaders.

Three runner-up prizes of $2,500 were awarded to teams from Iowa State University (Ames, IA), Warren Wilson College (Asheville, NC), and Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH).

Read the full story at http://foodpolicyaction.org/plate-of-the-union-announces-campus-challenge-winners/.