Dombrowski Awarded Honorable Mention for UCI Public Impact Fellowship

Congrats to Lynn Dombrowski, who received an honorable mention UC Irvine Public Impact Fellowship award for her work on design and technology’s role in reducing food insecurity! Lynn works focuses on: –  The design, development, and evaluation of systems alongside local hunger focused nonprofits to address identified local food needs. –  Empowering local communities with technology. – […]

Food Assistance Outreach with e-Government Applications

Food assistance outreach workers assist clients in applying for governmental nutrition assistance programs utilizing both offline and online application systems. These outreach workers make e-Government applications and services accessible to their client populations, by engaging in extensive human effort on behalf of their clients by negotiating information exchanges between governmental organizations and individual clients, fostering client and government relationships, and non-directly supporting and explaining underlying governmental processes to clients.