Rachel Sumekh – Swiping Out Hunger with Swipe Out Hunger

Rachel Sumekh is the Founder and CEO of Swipe Out Hunger, an association that is the main philanthropic intending to hunger among undergraduates. Her work has been perceived by the Obama White House and handled on the 2017 Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list of Social Entrepreneurs.

Prior to jump-starting Swipe Out Hunger full time, Rachel followed her millennial inclination to change the world and served those confronting neediness as a caseworker in Chicago. Rachel serves on the leading body of her profound local area, IKAR, and is a glad alumni of UCLA. She acknowledges her childhood as the offspring of Iranian Jewish settlers for her interconnected point of view.

Rachel Sumekh started Swipe with a couple of companions at UCLA in 2010 and it has since developed into more than 120 colleges, serving 2 million supporting dinners. Their inventive methodology permits college understudies to give unused assets from their dinner plans to food unreliable companions. Rachel composed the Hunger-Free Campus charge which passed in various states, sending $20 million to battle hunger. Rachel lives in Los Angeles where she serves on the leading group of her place of worship, IKAR. She accepted her B.A. from UCLA and credits her childhood as the offspring of Iranian Jewish workers for her interconnected viewpoint.

This year Swipe Out Hunger likewise cooperated with Michelson 20MM Foundation and Challah for Hunger to dispatch an understudy backing effort focusing on the reasonable, evenhanded, and straightforward conveyance of CARES act crisis help subsidizing to understudies and a site in association with the Congressional Hunger Center to demystify SNAP (food stamps) for the 1.65 million undergrads.

Alongside Forbes, her work has stood out as truly newsworthy in the New York Times, Washington Post, Vice and LA Weekly, and numerous others.