Who you are defines how you build.

This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series.

Brought you by Stanford E-Corner.

Welcome everyone here from YouTube and the Stanford community to the Stanford Entrepreneur Thought Leader series

presented by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurs

Center and BASIS, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurals students.

It is so great to have all of you here today.

My name is Emily Ma and I am delighted to welcome Ben Collier and James Knopf to ETL.

Ben and James are two co-founders of the FarmLink project, a student-led movement that has provided over 100 million pounds

of nutritious food to communities facing hunger in the United States. They started the project out of

their college dorm rooms at Brown and Stanford University during the pandemic by renting a

U-Haul truck to connect farmers with surplus to their local food bank. The project became an overnight

sensation going nationwide with entirely volunteer-based movement of thousands of students delivering millions of meals to families that need families that needed them the most.

Today, in addition to growing their food program nationwide, they are now launching a fellowship described as Teach for America for our food system,

placing the brightest young minds on the front lines

of the food system to learn, grow, and create more efficient solutions for hunger and waste.

The team has been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Jefferson Award for

Public Service, Forbes 30 Under 30, a Pritzker Environmental Genius nomination, and so much more. Their work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ABC World News Tonight,

and nearly every national television network in the U.S.

The FarmLink Project is now a rapidly growing team of 20-plus full-time employees

on a mission to make the world's abundance of nutritious food accessible

for everyone. They believe there will be a day in our lifetime where every person has access

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