In 2020, a former homeless man in Chicago set out to feed 100 families with $2,500; six years later, Dion Dawson employs 53 people and has distributed 80,000 pounds of free, fresh produce to more than 5,400 households every week
Dion Dawson knows what hunger feels like and what it means to wait in line for food. He remembers the cold, the hours before the doors opened, and the sense that the people behind the table had already decided who he was. “You’re not treated as if you’re a person. You’re kind of a number,”…