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WASTE MANAGEMENT

Copia CEO Komal Ahmad is using technology to distribute excess food to the hungry.
Meals on wheels Ahmad developed the Copia app to facilitate deliveries of donated food.

As a senior studying international health and global development at the University of California, Berkeley, Komal Ahmad noticed that just feet from her school’s dining hall—where leftover food was discarded daily—homeless people were scrounging for their next meal. “I call hunger the [developed] world’s dumbest problem, because

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