Diana Hughes - 2024 Jason Taylor Community Hall of Fame Youth Honoree

On May 18, 2024, Pro Football Hall of Fame Defensive End, Jason Taylor, inducted Diana Hughes into his Community Hall of Fame as the youth honoree.
At the time of the event, Diana was a senior at Coral Reef High School in Miami. In 2022, through her involvement with her school’s Parent Teacher Student Association, Diana learned of foster kids at her school who were struggling with access to school supplies and uniforms. As a former foster child herself, Diana was compelled to address this issue, among others her peers were facing, and founded the Cuda Care Pantry (CCP) within the walls of Coral Reef Senior High.
The Cuda Care Pantry provides nutritious snacks, school supplies, personal hygiene items, and second-hand uniforms to students at no cost, weekly serving more than 200 students. In response to the success of the CCP, Diana founded the Student Pantry Coalition in 2023, creating a network that fosters collaboration between students, parents, faculty, administrators, and non-profit organizations to support new and existing school pantries. Currently, nine different Miami-Dade high schools and middle schools are members of the coalition, having served more than 15,000 youth and families to date.
Diana's poem was written and voiced by Nyah Hardmon and produced by Chris Clark of Pendulum Productions.
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