A career in community service: School of Social Work professor Tracey Burke tackles food security in Anchorage
In Âé¶¹ÎÞÂë°æ, 102,670 residents, or 1 in 7 people, struggle with hunger. Of the 102,670, about 20 percent of those struggling to obtain a healthy meal each day are children, according to data collected from a 2016 Feeding America, Map the Meal Gap Report. Tracey Burke, a professor in the School of Social Work at the Âé¶¹ÎÞÂë°æ, has collaborated with Food Bank of Âé¶¹ÎÞÂë°æ and its partners for more than 10 years.