Eli Winkelman

At Scripps College in Claremont, California, Eli Winkelman served as president of the Hillel student board for a few years and founded Challah for Hunger. Challah for Hunger (CfH) volunteers bake challah from scratch every week, and sell it to the campus community to raise money for the victims of and awareness of the genocide in Sudan. In two and a half years, Claremont CfH sent more than $30,000 to humanitarian relief efforts in Sudan and Chad, and facilitated the writing of hundreds of letters to Washington. Eli is now helping students at other campuses start CfH groups.