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.

Source: Huffington Post July 03, 2025 12:00 UTC