Trinity College sophomore Martha Goodwin has partnered with ConnPIRG and her campus Hillel to initiate an anti-hunger program on campus that will distribute food to needy families in the surrounding community. Goodwin began the project as a MAZON fellow after attending the Spitzer Conference in Washington, D.C. MAZON is a Jewish anti-hunger organization that operates nationally. The Spitzer Conference is a Jewish social-action themed conference funded by the national Hillel.

Director of Hillel Lisa Kassow said, “[Goodwin] met the national representative of Campus Kitchen [at the Spitzer Conference], and has spent much of this semester preparing the ground for this major program that strives to bring together many different student organizations for the purpose of feeding the hungry, very close by in Hartford.”

Along with other students, Goodwin was trained at the Spitzer Conference. As the social action chair of the Hillel student board, Goodwin has worked to start several smaller initiatives this year, the largest being the campus kitchen project. “For Passover, I led a MAZON-inspired Seder,” Goodwin said.

ConnPIRG had attempted to start this project before, but with Goodwin’s help it became a reality. “At the conference I met one of the leaders of the national Campus Kitchens project. I knew that ConnPIRG had tried to start it last semester, so after I learned more I decided that we could definitely do the project at Trinity,” she said.