Food Insecurity in Minneapolis

Food Insecurity in Minneapolis (FIM) is a research and digital-storytelling site I built for a course at the University of Minnesota. It asks why hunger persists in a city that has the farms, infrastructure, and resources to end it, and where the gap between those resources and the people who need them actually opens up. View the live site.

I built it around the questions that bothered me most: where the system leaves people behind (the food deserts in north and south Minneapolis), what hunger costs a community in health and money, and what local organizations are doing about it. The research and the writing are all mine; I used Claude Code to help me work out how I wanted the site set up and to review how it looked. The final page is a call to action, because research that goes nowhere is just a paper.

It is a systemic-equity question turned into something people can actually read and act on. That instinct, looking for the structure underneath a problem instead of stopping at its surface, is the same one I bring to the rest of my work.