Just a bunch of regular adults, quietly, and for a moment, refusing to be bystanders to something as insane as school lunch debt. DJ Bracken lives with his 7-year-old daughter, Liara, and splits his time between coaching basketball and fighting school lunch debt. After personally paying off $835 at a local elementary school, DJ founded the Utah Lunch Debt Relief Foundation, which has raised over $50,000 and paid off the lunch debt of 12 Utah schools. His advocacy helped pass HB100, legislation that changed “reduced-price” lunch kids into “free” lunch kids, and prohibited lunch shaming in Utah schools. Follow his work on his Substack, “Lunch Money,” or donate directly to lunch debt relief at www.utldr.org.
