by Devin Dwyer

Simple Size Me from hannah yi on Vimeo.

Ryan Kellermeyer says that despite our individual hardships, most of us are truly some of the richest people in the world. A few months ago, he downsized his diet to prove the point. Kellermeyer, who admits to carrying some extra pounds, has been eating a single bowl of rice each day and blogging about it as part of a fundraising campaign against hunger.

With a dozen other students at Columbia University J-school this semester, I worked on a series of stories about the economy, including his.