Meet The Team: Nick Di’Pierro

About Nick DiPierro

Executive Board Position: President

Past Lion’s Pantry Experience: Treasurer & Lion’s Pantry Ambassador

Majors: Finance

Minors: International Business

Other 2023-2024 Involvement:

1) What are you most excited about The Lion’s Pantry this year?

Working with this amazing team to continue to deliver pivotal services to the Penn State community.

2) What initiatives, campaigns, or goals would you like to see during the 2023-24 academic year?

3) Why should new students join The Lion’s Pantry?

The Lion’s Pantry is a great way to gain perspective on food insecurity, become grounded in the community, and help provide aid in a hands on engaging environment.

4) What does food insecurity mean to you?

Food insecurity is one’s inability to fulfill their daily nutritional needs. This is an important issue mainly because of how hard it can be to remedy and pinpoint in a given population. Grappling with food insecurity is an issue that does not get a lot of visibility, and therefore, is why I give it a lot of emphasis and got involved early in my college career.

5) What excites you most about the position you hold for The Lion’s Pantry during the 2023-24 year?

Leading this team. I am lucky to be working with driven and passionate individuals who will be pivotal in allowing the Pantry to provide it’s services to patrons for this upcoming academic year.

6) Please share one of your favorite memories from The Lion’s Pantry.

My first year with the pantry, we partnered with the YMCA of Center County for a Thanksgiving food drive. The memory of of this event is special to me because it was a drive-thru operation with social distancing procedures, which made it more unique.

Favorite Way to Unwind After a Long Day: Cooking a nice meal, spending time with friends

“Go-To” Fun Fact: Hit a tree my first skiing trip