Jeremy Everett, D.Min.

Founder and Executive Director, Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty Baylor University

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Baylor expert’s new book offers hope for addressing America’s hunger crisis

As the founder and director of Baylor’s Texas Hunger Initiative, Jeremy Everett (MDiv ’01) is literally considered an expert on fighting hunger. Recently, he’s followed in the footsteps of many experts before him — by authoring his first book on his area of expertise. The book, I Was Hungry, offers an assessment of the current hunger crisis in America and a strategy for addressing the problem. Everett focuses on scripture, calling Christians to listen to Matthew 25:35 and work intentionally across ideological divides to effectively end America’s hunger crisis. “Approximately 40 million Americans experience food insecurity,” Everett told Christianity Today last month. “My view is that this particular group bears the weight of all the brokenness in our social systems. Often, we look at Americans experiencing hunger or food insecurity and place them in different categories than Americans who, say, lack access to healthcare, live in poverty, or struggle to find good jobs. But the reality, on the local level, is that these groups are all part of the same family. Their struggles are interconnected.”

Jeremy Everett, D.Min.

Biography

Dr. Jeremy Everett is the founder and executive director of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty. The Collaborative integrates research, policy, and practice through projects such as: the Hunger Free Community Accelerator; the Baylor Collaborative Innovation Hub; the Master’s degree in Theology, Ecology, and Food Justice; and the Hunger Data Lab.

With nearly 100 staff, interns, and researchers, the Baylor Collaborative team has assisted community-based, state-based, and national efforts to increase hundreds of millions of additional meals through innovative, researched-based interventions. In Dr. Everett’s tenure with the Collaborative, he has raised more than 300 million dollars to support faculty research, public service, and policy analysis.

Prior to his appointment with the Baylor Collaborative, Dr. Everett worked for international and community development organizations as a teacher, religious leader, community organizer, and farmer. He frequently delivers presentations to congregations, non-profit organizations, universities, and the government sector about hunger and poverty.

Dr. Everett earned a bachelor’s degree from Samford University, a Master of Divinity from Truett Seminary at Baylor University, and his Doctor of Ministry from Duke Divinity School at Duke University. Jeremy is a Next Generation Fellow of the University of Texas LBJ School’s Strauss Center for International Security and Law, an Affiliate with Temple University’s Hope Center, and was the 2022 Waco Tribune Person of the Year. In 2014, Dr. Everett was appointed by U.S. Congress to serve on the National Commission on Hunger. He serves on various boards such as the 2030 Collaborative and Bread for the World where he is currently serving as Chair.

Dr. Everett is the author of "I Was Hungry: Cultivating Common Ground to End an American Crisis" (Brazos Press, 2019), a contributing author in "What Justice Looks Like" (Baylor Press), "Food and Poverty: Food Insecurity and Food Sovereignty Among America’s Poor" (Vanderbilt University Press), and "The End of Hunger: How Science, Religion, and Politics Can Work Together to Make Possible" (InterVarsity Press).

Areas of Expertise

Hunger Policy
Food Insecurity
Community Organizing

Education

Duke Divinity School

D.Min.

2023

Baylor's George W. Truett Theological Seminary

M.Div.

2001

Samford University

B.A.

religion and history

Media Appearances

Everett: Solving hunger and poverty requires teamwork

Baptist Standard  online

2024-09-29

Crossing lines to work together is essential in addressing hunger and poverty, Jeremy Everett – founding director of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty – told participants at the Fellowship Southwest Compassion & Justice Conference in Dallas. Everett recounted how the Baylor Collaborative and its partners were able to scale up the pilot Meals to You program nationwide during the initial months of the pandemic. Baptist News Global also reported on the conference.

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Why Texas refused $450 million to help feed 3.8 million hungry kids this summer

The Dallas Morning News  online

2024-03-06

Jeremy Everett, D.Min., founder and executive director of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, was interviewed for this opinion piece about the logistical challenges that led Texas to decline federal money that would have helped provide food for low-income Texas children this summer. BCHP evaluated several of the trial runs of the Summer EBT program, which Everett said is an excellent tool in the fight against hunger.

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Post-COVID, U.S. poverty and hunger rates are soaring

Baptist News Global  online

2023-10-26

The Baylor University Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty has worked for years to address child hunger in response to rising poverty and hunger rates in the U.S. Jeremy Everett, executive director of the Baylor Collaborative, is quoted about the importance of combatting rising rates by working across all sectors of the U.S.

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