How one student turned her struggles with homelessness into a crusade

“It’s pretty much life or death if you don’t have a degree for people like me,” says Brooke Evans. Most college students feel their degree is crucial, but the stakes are higher for Evans, a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, because she’s been homeless for most of her college career. And she has dedicated her free time to improving college life for other low-income and homeless students. She proposed a plan to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of University Housing to get SNAP, also known as food stamps or food share, accepted as a form of payment in University of Wisconsin-Madison dining halls and food markets.