Robert Cook's Blog (4)

The group within Fresno County hardest hit by food insecurity are the local farmworkers and their children. The problems seem to stem in part from low income, the fact that many of these farmworkers are not doc**ented citizens, the farmworkers migrate with the seasons, and that many do not use food stamps even if they are eligible. Problems of food insecurity do not effect only the adults, it is also affecting the children who are not being provided healthy foods at school to help supplement… Continue

In ten years I imagine myself writing. I have longed wished to be a writer, and that the words I put down will have an effect on people. I see myself using words to spread the idea that the world is an imperfect place, but not through necessity but out of choice. I see myself spreading the idea that the ability to make the world better, the ability to make change, is something all people can take part in. I see myself using fiction, essays, short stories and more to spark imagination in people,… Continue

I have decided to shadow a social innovator and author Barbara Kingsolver because she has chosen a path towards creating change that is different from many of the others I have been reading about through Evoke. One crucial step towards a better world is the spreading of information, getting people involved and engaging them in new and interesting ways. Kingsolver has done this through fiction. She has written books such as Lacuna and also… Continue

Understand by observing the environment, infrastructure, culture and lives of people by being there.



I think one of the greatest tools of any social innovator is understanding. Through the ability to see through the eyes of others can you truly imagine what would best help them. As long as we continue to look at the world only through our own eyes we will always be constrained by our perspectives on happiness, efficiency, and a world that works.



We must also… Continue