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Share Our Strength

Share Our Strength, an anti-hunger organization based in Washington, D.C., focuses on ending childhood hunger in America.

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RESULTS

RESULTS is a nonprofit grassroots advocacy organization in Washington, D.C., that works to create the political will to end hunger. Joanne Carter is executive director.

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Food Research and Action Center

Food Research and Action Center is a Washington, D.C., advocacy group working on public policy and public-private partnerships on food and hunger issues. The organization maintains statistics about poverty and food insecurity.

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Congressional Hunger Center

The bipartisan Congressional Hunger Center, which grew out of the U.S. House Select Committee on Hunger, trains anti-hunger advocates. A number of members of Congress are on its board; Zack Bly is the communications specialist.

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National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit society of distinguished scholars. Established by an act of Congress signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, the NAS is charged with providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology.

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Diane Orentlicher

Diane Orentlicher is a professor at the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. Her scholarly work has focused on issues of accountability for human rights crimes, transitions to democracy, corporate responsibility in a transnational context, and the relationship between ethnic identity and political participation.

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Hadar Harris

Hadar Harris is executive director of the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. She is an international human rights attorney and has specialized in issues of civil and political rights, gender equality and fighting impunity for torturers.

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