FEATURE Image: Marianne Williamson founded Project Angel Food in Hollywood, California, that prepares and delivers healthy meals to feed people impacted by serious illness, bringing comfort and hope every day. PHOTO: “Marianne Williamson” by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

Marianne Williamson (b. 1952), a Democrat, is running for U.S. president in 2024. She has an interesting biography. For example, Williamson has been active in charity work founding in 1989 Project Angel Food that provides free meals for people too sick to shop and cook for themselves. Sparked in response to a dramatic increase in HIV/AIDS cases in the late 1980s and early 1990’s, Project Angel Food has served its 16 millionth free meal to the sick and infirm in 2023. Within an especially committed and hard-working history, Elizabeth Taylor’s AIDS Foundation gave Project Angel Food its first-ever grant of $150,000 in 1992 and the charity organization obtained its first government grant in 1993. In 1999, Taylor accepted an Angel Award recognizing her impact on increasing awareness of HIV/AIDS at a time in Los Angeles when there were more than 30,000 known cases. In 1998, Marianne Williamson founded the Peace Alliance, a U.S. nonprofit working towards peace building in the U.S. and around the globe. Ms. Williamson is a board member for RESULTS, a nonprofit dedicated to finding long-term solutions to poverty. Ms. Williamson’s candidacy for U.S. President this year (she UNsuspended her campaign this week) should certainly be worth following.