Swipe Out Hunger began in 2010 with a few friends at UCLA. Since, its network has grown to over 750 universities, serving millions of nourishing meals. The organization’s innovative approach allows university students to donate unused funds from their meal plans to food insecure peers. In 2021, Swipe merged with the College and University Food Bank Alliance (CUFBA) becoming the home for the food pantry movement. Rachel wrote the Hunger Free Campus Act which the state of California passed and has since sent $100+ million to anti-hunger programs on campus.
Rachel serves on the board of the Los Angeles Community College Foundation and is a graduate of UCLA. Rachel is the proud daughter of Iranian Jewish immigrants.
Learn more about Swipe at swipehunger.org/ and about Rachel’s work at sumekh.com
Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center
Dan Glickman, former U.S. secretary of agriculture and chair of APCO Worldwide’s International Advisory Council, is the former executive director of the Aspen Institute Congressional Program, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan educational program for members of the United States Congress. Secretary Glickman served as a Member of Congress from Kansas 1977-1995. Secretary Glickman also serves as a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C., formed by former Senate majority leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole and George Mitchell, to develop and promote bipartisan solutions to the country’s problems and to promote civility in government.
He is also on the board of directors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange; Food Research and Action Center, a domestic anti-hunger organization; National 4-H Council; and the Center for U.S. Global Engagement, where he is chair of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. Additionally, he co-chairs the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ global agricultural development initiative.
Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, Secretary Glickman was chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) and director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
For over 14 years, Sunny has worked to lead school food reform and create a new culture of regionally-based eating. She is currently the Senior Director of Programs and Policy at the National Farm to School Network, an organization with a vision of a strong and just food system for all, seeking deep transformation toward this vision through farm to school. Originally from St. Louis, Sunny grew up with a deep appreciation for the natural world and a strong desire to make a positive impact on her community, values shaped by her Jewish identity. One of Sunny's most notable accomplishments was her work growing the farm to school movement in Mississippi, featured at TedXManhattan in 2014. She established Good Food for Oxford Schools and co-founded the Mississippi Farm to School Network during her decade in the state. Sunny’s career has led her to make meaningful connections between food systems and food justice work, which she sees as a crucial component of racial and economic justice. She believes every child has a right to nourishing, culturally appropriate food at school, regardless of their income, race, or geographic location. She is a frequent speaker at conferences and events, where she shares her expertise on topics such as food sovereignty and the future of school food. A graduate of Hendrix College, Sunny is now located in Little Rock, AR, where she spends her free time practicing yoga, baking challah for Shabbat dinners, and taking forest walks with her two daughters.
