Deadline to Register for National Food Waste & Hunger Summit is Friday

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Volunteers with the Campus Hunger Initiative recovering unused food during the 2015 Walmart shareholders event.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Registration is still open for the Food Waste & Hunger Summit, which will be held in the Arkansas Union at the University of Arkansas Saturday and Sunday, April 16-17. The fee to attend is $35, and the deadline to register is Friday, April 1.

“The response so far has been amazing,” said Claire Allison, coordinator of the student volunteer Campus Hunger Initiative at the U of A, which is co-hosting the summit with The Campus Kitchens Project. “People from all over the country will be coming to share ways to fight food waste and food insecurity in their communities. We will also have many people from Northwest Arkansas organizations attending – there is tremendous local interest in this event.”

Speakers scheduled for the Summit include:

• Tom Vilsack, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
• Rebecca Vallas, policy director for the Poverty to Prosperity Program at the Center for American Progress
• Robert Egger, president and founder of L.A. Kitchen.

Local and national partner organizations including the Alliance to End Hunger, D.C. Central Kitchen, No Kid Hungry and Universities Fighting World Hunger will join the discussion along with as many as 250 student leaders from around the nation who are leading the fight to reduce food waste and hunger on their campuses and in their communities.

About the University of Arkansas: The University of Arkansas provides an internationally competitive education for undergraduate and graduate students in more than 200 academic programs. The university contributes new knowledge, economic development, basic and applied research, and creative activity while also providing service to academic and professional disciplines. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the University of Arkansas among only 2 percent of universities in America that have the highest level of research activity. U.S. News & World Report ranks the University of Arkansas among its top American public research universities. Founded in 1871, the University of Arkansas comprises 10 colleges and schools and maintains a low student-to-faculty ratio that promotes personal attention and close mentoring.