In 2020, a former homeless man in Chicago set out to feed 100 families with $2,500; six years later, Dion Dawson employs 53 people and has distributed 80,000 pounds of free, fresh produce to more than 5,400 households every week

• Dion Dawson knows what hunger feels like and what it means to wait in line for food.
• He remembers the cold, the hours before the doors opened, and the sense that the people behind the table had already decided who he was.
• “You’re not treated as if you’re a person.