Hunger for Change: Interfaith Hunger Banquet

March 23, 2011
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. EDT
Location: McCarthy Hall McShain Lounge Map

The Hunger Banquet was the kickoff event of the interfaith initiative on campus "Hunger for Change." Hunger for Change was launched by a Georgetown interfaith group working closely with the Interfaith Youth Core as part of a nation-wide campaign encouraging college students to respect one another’s faith and non-faith traditions and to draw on the mutual inspiration of these traditions to take action on social issues. This event brought together people of various backgrounds to raise awareness of the world food crisis through role-playing games illustrating disparities in access to food. Fr. Kevin O'Brien was also a featured speaker.

In the week leading up to the Hunger Banquet (March 21-25), a "post secret" message board was set up in ICC Galleria. This was a bulletin board on which members of the Georgetown community posted comments, pictures, poems, etc. related to their personal beliefs or experiences. The purpose was to engage students and the community to contribute in a creative and personal way on the issues of hunger and interfaith dialogue.

The event was co-sponsored by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Campus Ministry, Center for Multicultural Equity and Access, Equity and Affirmative Action, LGBTQ Resource Center, Office of Institutional Diversity, Oxfam, and the Women's Center.

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About Kevin F. O'Brien

Fr. Kevin O'Brien, S.J., is dean of Santa Clara University's Jesuit School of Theology. He previously was Georgetown's vice president for mission and ministry from August 2011 through July 2016, as well as a professorial lecturer in the Department of Theology and Jesuit-in-Residence in Copley Hall. Prior to that, he served as executive director of campus ministry at Georgetown from 2008 to 2011. O'Brien has also been an associate pastor at Holy Trinity Church in Washington, DC, taught at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, and assisted in Fordham University's Office of University Mission and Ministry. He is on the board of directors of the Washington Jesuit Academy. O'Brien is the author of The Ignatian Adventure: Experiencing the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in Daily Life (2011). He holds an undergraduate degree from Georgetown, J.D. from the University of Florida, M.A. from Fordham University, and a master’s degree in divinity and a licentiate in sacred theology from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology.

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