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Daily Bruin PodcastsBruin to Bruin: Swiping Out Hunger with Rachel SumekhHost Kayla Hayempour talks with UCLA alum Rachel Sumekh, founder of Swipe Out Hunger, about turning a small campus initiative into a national movement against college food insecurity. Rachel shares her journey, the impact of student activism and how legislation she helped craft has secured over $100 million for campus hunger programs. Plus, UCLA’s Carl Maier joins to discuss Swipe Out Hunger’s work today. A transcript is available at dailybruin.com/category/podcasts.2025-02-1046 min
Issue SpaceOn & Off (the Ground): Finding Your Best Vantage Point for Change Every social impact pro has to find their own way. Will they focus on one issue, or work across many? Will they tie their efforts to a certain place or politician, or float across a range of movements and leaders? And, will they work to tackle change from the top-down (think: systems, media, politics) or from the bottom-up (in communities, working with the grassroots)? In this episode of the Issue Space podcast, we speak with three social impact professionals to explore how they found where they belong across the different tiers of changemaking. About 2024-10-221h 01
What Gives? The Jewish Philanthropy PodcastRachel Sumekh - Dispelling Myths and Addressing Jewish PovertyEpisode 55 of What Gives? the Jewish philanthropy podcast from Jewish Funders Network, hosted by JFN President and CEO Andrés Spokoiny. In this episode, Andrés speaks with Rachel Sumekh, Project Executive of TEN: Together Ending Need, a collaborative initiative of funders working to ensure that all Jews have access to basic needs. Rachel and Andrés speak about the critical issue of Jewish poverty. Rachel highlights the reality of Jewish poverty, dispels the myths surrounding it, and sheds light on how poverty impacts all sectors of the Jewish community. Rachel brings both data and heart to this important conve...2024-09-3048 min
BETTER with Mark BrandRachel Sumekh - THE TRUE HEART OF ADVOCACYRachel Sumekh was in college when she noticed the problem: her peers are hungry. Then she spotted the solution and moved instantly into action. No flinching here. (You can see why we’re friends.) It didn’t take long for the administration to see her impact before they tried to shut it down. While they moved to block progress, the Obama White House named her organization a “Champion for Change.” What one authority called rebellion, another named Revolution. Same coin, different sides. One truth. In this conversation, Rachel speaks openly about the influe...2022-10-231h 01
The Nonprofit PodcastThe Nonprofit Podcast - Ep 20 Swipe Out Hunger Part 2 - A Leader In TransitionSend us a textIn Part 2 of our two-part Summer Inspiration Special with Rachel Sumekh of Swipe Out Hunger, a little something to help you set your strategy wheels spinning over the July 4th weekend, we follow up with an in-depth discussion of Rachel’s decision to step down as Founder. Honest, emotional and evocative these are two episodes that will remind you why you chose the nonprofit path, and when and why the time comes for Founders to move on.In this Episode, You Will LearnWhy Rachel is leaving her lea...2022-07-0155 min
The Nonprofit PodcastThe Nonprofit Podcast - Ep 19 Swipe Out HungerSend us a textOur Nonprofit Podcast field reporter, Jared Polivka, sits down with Rachel Sumekh CEO and founder of Swipe Out Hunger. As the catalyst behind this US-based national nonprofit committed to ending college student hunger, Rachel is the epitome of driving the change you want to see. The organization works with colleges and universities to design and implement a range of anti-hunger programs, including “The Swipe Drive” which enables students to donate meals to their peers facing food insecurity on campus.This is Part 1 of a two-part Summer Inspiration Special, a little something to he...2022-06-3032 min
Add Passion and StirRachel Sumekh on Swiping Out Hunger on College CampusesRachel Sumekh, Founder & CEO of Swipe Out Hunger, discusses hunger on Swipe Out Hunger campuses and the value of activism. “One in three college students in the US today is food insecure. We pitch education and we pitch going to college as a pathway to get out of poverty, and yet our students get there and we cannot deliver on that promise,” says Sumekh. Swipe Out Hunger is the leading nonprofit addressing hunger among college students with a range of anti-hunger programs in more than 140 colleges. Their flagship program, ‘The Swipe Drive,’ enables students to donate meals to their...2021-12-0137 min
The Bagel Report#SorryNotSorryButReallySorryIn honor of Yom Kippur, Esther and Erin are asking TV characters to apologize to other characters/audiences/The Bagel Report itself, and the co-hosts admit that they may need to repent for their comments about "Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist." Plus, the movement around #CancelTheActivist; a new Jewish superhero; looking for Jews on "Grey’s Anatomy"; defining what Teshuvah (repentance) looks like for Midge Maisel and more. Judd Nelson is Jewish! Vu Le Article Rachel Sumekh/SwipeOut Hunger/The Activist Advot Project's lessons on Teshuvah PJ Grisar’s article about Whistle 2021-09-1737 min
All About ChangeSwiping Away Hunger1 in 3 college students face food insecurity nationally. In 2010, while an undergrad at UCLA, Rachel Sumekh noticed her fellow students were going hungry. She immediately sprung into action and founded Swipe Out Hunger, an organization that allows university students to donate their unused meal points to their peers and community members who are struggling with hunger. Today, they’re on more than 130 college campuses. Listen to learn more about Rachel’s mission to eradicate hunger on college campuses one swipe at a time.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2021-08-0238 min
Health Bite34. A Look Back At 2020: The Anniversary EpisodeLeave Health Bite a Feedback.Click This Link.When I realized that the podcast had been airing for a year, I was surprised. I’ve interviewed incredible people over the last year. Each conversation has been interesting, enjoyable, and educational. This week I take a look back through previous episodes and share short but powerful portions from the past year. If you hear an episode that you’d like to hear more from, you can go to dehlnutrition.com and listen to any episode. Highlights: Food for on...2021-04-0734 minHealth Bite1. Food for one, food for all With Rachel SumekhLeave Health Bite a Feedback.Click This Link.Food is everything! Not only for the way it nourishes our bodies, but also the ways that it connects us to one another and brings us together. In today’s episode, we are proud to have Rachel Sumkeh, an amazing philanthropist with incredible vision. Rachel is the CEO and Founder Swipe Out Hunger, a nonprofit organization that’s helping feed college students all over the US. Swipe Out Hunger is in over 90 universities and has served over 1.7 million meals.Highlights:Food allows us to commu...2020-03-2329 min
Tablet StudiosBonus: The First Unorthodox HavdalahUnorthodox producer Josh Kross tries to bring some light at the end of Shabbat with some help from our Facebook group and Stephanie's talk with Swipe Out Hunger's Rachel Sumekh about her organization's response to COVID-19.2020-03-1510 min
Behind The RainbowEP #14: How To Be A Boss In A Non-Profit & In Life (with Rachel Sumekh)Ever want to make your side passion into a full-blown career that takes over the world? On today's episode I talk to the QUEEN of turning your dreams into reality Rachel Sumekh. She explains how a simple action she took in college 9 years ago has transformed into the non-profit organization, Swipe Out Hunger, that's impacting thousands of students today. Rachel spills her secrets on to be your own BOSS (figuratively and literally) in all aspects of life. PLUS, for those of you who know Rachel personally, this episode is extra special because I've gotten the juicy personal details about Rachel...2019-12-0431 min
The Curious EaterHungry for Change: Nine Changemaker StoriesNine short stories shared live at an evening of celebration for Berkeley Food Institute's project, Hungry for Change. Featuring stories from Leah Atwood, Sammy Gensaw, Kristyn Leach, Ruben Canedo, Adrionna Pike, Anthony Reyes, Rachel Sumekh, Breanna Hawkins and Estella Cisneros.2019-04-1500 min
Purple HoneyAdar II/Nissan - How do we let all who are hungry come and and eat?Conversations with two Jewish women exploring innovative approaches to the call of Passover - Let all who are hungry come and eat. I speak with Naama Haviv, MAZON's Director of Development, and Rachel Sumekh, Founder & CEO of Swipe Out Hunger, on who is vulnerable to hunger in the United States and effective techniques to help alleviate and solve the problem.
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Tablet StudiosUnorthodox Loves L.AThis week's episode was recorded live at Adat Shalom in Los Angeles.Our first Jewish guest is Rachel Sumekh, who founded Swipe Out Hunger, the leading nonprofit in addressing hunger on college campuses. She tells us why Swipe Out Hunger is a fundamentally Jewish project, inspired in part by her family's dependence on food assistance after her parents immigrated to the U.S. from Iran, and how, as a Persian Jewish woman in the technology and social entrepreneurship world, she's hoping to be more of a norm than an exception.Our second Jewish guest is...2019-02-071h 10
Tablet StudiosAfter the StormThis week on Unorthodox, one young man's journey out of white nationalism. Our Jewish guest is Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow, whose latest book is Rising out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist, which tells the story of Derek Black, the son of Stormfront founder Don Black and heir apparent to the White Nationalist movement. After enrolling in a diverse college and befriending a wide range of people—including Jewish students who invited him to weekly Shabbat dinners after he was outed as a white supremacist—Derek began to challenge his ingrained assumptions, ultimately deno...2019-01-3159 min
Tablet StudiosUnorthodox Live in D.C.This episode was recorded at Washington Hebrew Congregation in Washington, D.C., in partnership with the Association of Reform Jewish Educators. Thanks to our friends at ARJE for making this show happen.Our Jewish guest is food historian Michael Twitty, author of the James Beard Award-winning book The Cooking Gene, who returns to the show to tell us about his years as a Hebrew School teacher, when he was often the first black person his students interacted with, and his next book project, Kosher Soul, which focuses on his Jewish identity. He also explains what ptcha is...2019-01-241h 14
Tablet StudiosMatch GameThis week on Unorthodox, we're setting it up.Our Jewish guest this week is longtime matchmaker Tova Weinberg, who founded the Jewish dating website Saw You at Sinai. In an interview recorded at our Hanukkah live show in Pittsburgh, she tells the hosts about ditching dentistry to become a matchmaker (she estimates she's made 350 matches over the past 40 years), and her opinion on what it is that men and women really want. She also helps out a listener with some first date tips.Our Gentile of the Week is producer Scott Ellis, whose long list...2019-01-171h 09
Forbes Under 30Best of – Rachel Sumekh – originally week of 11/22/2017 – Swipe left, when it comes to hunger on campus.Rachel Sumekh, CEO and founder of Swipe Out Hunger, wants you to be a starfish, not a spider. Steve talks with Rachel about the success Swipe out Hunger is having on 100 college campuses, organizing students to donate their unused meal points to students who need them. And Rachel has strong advice on how you can bring your power to the table, and accelerate your vision.2018-07-2539 minForbes Under 30Rachel Sumekh Is Swiping Out Hunger On CampusDeeply concerned by the high percentages of college students who go hungry, Rachel Sumekh, CEO and founder of Swipe Out Hunger, set out to solve the problem with her non-profit which allows students to donate their unused meal points to students in need. Hear Sumekh reveal the entrepreneurial tips that accelerated her organization all the way to national recognition from President Obama. And -- she shares what the President said that can inspire us all.2017-11-2239 min
The NTM Growth Marketing PodcastSFH #008: How to make America's colleges 'hunger free'This week on The School for Humanity we have Rachel Sumekh who is the CEO of Swipe out Hunger. Swipe Out Hunger works to end hunger by activating college students to donate unused meal points to feed their peers and community members in need. By taking a resource that already exists (meal points) and using those funds to solve a global problem (hunger), Swipe Out Hunger promotes innovative solutions to a wasteful system. Born under the name "Swipes for the Homeless" in 2009, a few friends at UCLA went into the dining hall, used their meal...2017-06-2025 minThe NTM Growth Marketing PodcastSFH #008: How to make America's colleges 'hunger free'This week on The School for Humanity we have Rachel Sumekh who is the CEO of Swipe out Hunger. Swipe Out Hunger works to end hunger by activating college students to donate unused meal points to feed their peers and community members in need. By taking a resource that already exists (meal points) and using those funds to solve a global problem (hunger), Swipe Out Hunger promotes innovative solutions to a wasteful system. Born under the name "Swipes for the Homeless" in 2009, a few friends at UCLA went into the dining hall, used their meal...2017-06-2025 minForbes Under 30Rachel Sumekh Is Swiping Out Hunger On CampusFounder & CEO of Swipe Out Hunger, Rachel Sumekh reveals the entrepreneurial secrets that accelerated her non-profit all the way to national recognition from then President Obama.2017-06-1441 min