and those of you who don't know why we keep referring to marianne allie, there is one way that you can find out you can read alex's book, joe. so please, please do that. so this is the beginning of the celebration. the real celebration is when you read it. so if you had read the first part about the first edition of alex's book, you would know that he joined us over 18 years ago for the first time in 2006, 2005, 2006 as a college, probably a starry eyed or idealistic young guy who had read our founder robert eggers book and was drawn to the innovative, sometimes irreverent ways that we went about our business fighting hunger differently and trying to break the generational, the destructive generation cycle of our cycles of incarceration, addiction, violence, abuse, homelessness hunger, and ultimately poverty. and alex came to us and spent a semester here working off of his office or what. we also many people refer to as a box in a chair with, you know, three of the it had at least three legs, i think alex and we were pretty good at that point in time. and alex back to academia came bac

and those of you who don't know why we keep referring to marianne allie, there is one way that you can find out you can read alex's book, joe. so please, please do that. so this is the beginning of the celebration. the real celebration is when you read it. so if you had read the first part about the first edition of alex's book, you would know that he joined us over 18 years ago for the first time in 2006, 2005, 2006 as a college, probably a starry eyed or idealistic young guy who had read our founder robert eggers book and was drawn to the innovative, sometimes irreverent ways that we went about our business fighting hunger differently and trying to break the generational, the destructive generation cycle of our cycles of incarceration, addiction, violence, abuse, homelessness hunger, and ultimately poverty. and alex came to us and spent a semester here working off of his office or what. we also many people refer to as a box in a chair with, you know, three of the it had at least three legs, i think alex and we were pretty good at that point in time. and alex back to academia came bac