“It was then I realized I could serve my country in a very impactful way.” “Right across the way, UC Berkeley’s dining halls were throwing away thousands of pounds of food,” Ahmad said. She listened as he said he had been waiting for his VA benefits to kick in and hadn’t eaten in three days. When Ahmad was a student at UC Berkeley, she met a homeless veteran on the street, bought him a meal and watched him scarf it down. “We see a lot of innovation coming from millennials with technology and food.” Working to end hunger “Food is the new social activism,” Lewis said.

Millennials want more authenticity and transparency in their food - values that go beyond taste and cost, said 30 Under 30 judge Josette Lewis, associate director of the UC Davis World Food Center. Sumekh, McGuire and Ahmad - all University of California alums - are among the winners of the inaugural UC Global Food Initiative 30 Under 30 Awards, honoring 30 young innovators trailblazing to solve the global food crisis. Tapping into their generation’s intersecting interests in food, technology and social activism, these young social entrepreneurs are making their mark. “Why can’t we use it to improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people? In a world with so much abundance, talent, innovation and money, no one should go hungry.”

“We can use technology to order food,” Ahmad said. Komal Ahmad, 26, founded Copia, a food recovery business that builds on the ideas behind and Uber to connect, in real time, those with excess food to those in need of it. Millennial social entrepreneurs are seeking to reduce hunger and food waste, such as Komal Ahmad, founder and CEO of Copia, a food recovery business.

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