Dawn Pierce

Dawn Pierce is the National Community Organizing Manager for Hunger Free America and a Licensed Practical Nurse of 32 years living in Boise, Idaho. Dawn has lived expertise as a hunger and poverty survivor. At Bread for the World’s National Gathering in 2013, and the Bread for the World Institute’s 2016 Hunger Report, Dawn told her story of losing her job during the Great Recession, needing SNAP (food stamps), all while trying to raise a teenage son and manage her own health concerns. In 2016, she participated in a White House panel discussion with Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts highlighting Child Hunger in America, and in 2022 was invited and attended the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health with Hunger Free America. Dawn serves on the Alliance to End Hunger Advisory Council, the Idaho Hunger Relief Task Force board of directors, frequently advocates for anti-hunger and anti-poverty legislation in Washington DC and locally, plus is a fierce community advocate for the Idaho Food Bank, and is a former member of the Bread for the World Board of Directors, RESULTS Experts on Poverty Cohort, and former Co-Chair of the Idaho Interfaith Roundtable Against Hunger.