Intro to Mass Communications: Guest Post B
To start off this Blog post, I would like to commend Professor Brett E. Chambers for assigning our class to watch and write about the amazing Jasmine Crowe; Professor Chambers never fails to introduce his students to exemplar Black Female industry leaders. As a soon to be North Carolina Central University Alumna, I am thoroughly inspired by the boundary breaking successes of former Lady Eagles.
Ms. Jasmine Crowe, NCCU Class of ’95, has been diligently working to end hunger by reducing food waste. Crowe has collected and donated over two million items, feeding 80,000 people across the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as in South Africa and Haiti; this all being through the Sunday Soul Homeless feeding initiative started through Jasmine’s foundation BlackCelebrityGiving.com. In 2017, Ms. Crowe created Goodr a “tech enabled sustainable food waste management company with a goal to eliminate hunger and reduce food waste.”
WOW! I need to take a moment to fully describe the proud feeling I have knowing that Jasmine Crowe, a black female HBCU graduate, went out into the world to make a substantial change and succeeded; and she continues to succeed meeting all her quotas. Since its foundation, Jasmine’s company Goodr has diverted nearly two million pounds of food from landfills to those experiencing hunger crisis; the company currently operates in six United States cities.
Throughout Jasmine Crowe’s TedTalk, she covers the foundation of the Sunday Soul Homeless Feeding Initiative as well as her latest endeavor Goodr. Listening to Crowe speak it is obvious that she genuinely cares about each and every person she is feeding; she believes that everyone deserves respect and to comfortably enjoy a hot meal. Her company is also solving another issue, food waste; “In the United States, we waste about one pound of food per person per day” that quote from her presentation blew my mind. Through working in the Lowes Whole-foods Bakery, I’ve witnessed first hand loads of baked goods (expired and not expired) being thrown in the garbage to end up in a landfill somewhere. Its actually ridiculous the amount of food wasted on a daily basis by restaurants and grocery stores, especially listening to Crowe’s United States Hunger statistics which depict marginalized groups dire need for food.
Jasmine Crowe’s TedTalk titled “Hunger is not a Question of Scarcity” is extremely informative, and I commend her for the work she is doing to better the lives of people all over the world. Crowe is an inspiration, she was bothered by a societal problem and she did something about it. Not only did she do something about the hunger crisis, Crowe evolved her methods through the creation of Goodr to better suit the needs of the people she served. I will take heed of Jasmine Crowe’s heartening TedTalk presentation, and apply her thought process to my life; if I see an issue that bothers me, I will educate myself to find the solutions.
Olivia Coy Daniel 