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Benny's Pantry Director Lesa Crawford Talks Pantry Purposes and Improvements

Benny's Pantry Volunteers at an Albertsons Food Drive
Hadley Bodell
Benny's Pantry Volunteers at an Albertsons Food Drive

Downstairs in the Student Union building by the game center is a door whose sign reads “Benny’s Pantry”. It is a resource worth recognizing, and to learn more, I sat down with pantry director Lesa Crawford.

The pantry runs off donations from the community and partnerships with other organizations like the Idaho Food Bank. The unfortunate truth is that even an organization like the pantry right on campus cannot reach the entire population of food insecure students and staff.

In this interview, Crawford lets us in on what the pantry is doing to meet their short and long term goals to serve the entire population in need, as well as what you can do to help!

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I'm Hadley, a second year student in Communications in Multiplatform Journalism at ISU. I am the Editor-in-Chief of The Bengal Newspaper on campus, and love writing all kinds of local and student life stories. I'm also the host of The Bengal Podcast with my fellow journalists at The Bengal! Look out for new episodes of the podcast monthly!