Meet Faythe: House of Hope's New Market Coordinator

Every Saturday, from 11:30am to 1pm, the food market at House of Hope (1300 W. Hunting Park Ave.) serves meals and pantry items to Philadelphians experiencing food insecurity. In 2025, House of Hope provided 118,110 meals to 5,151 guests.

For Faythe, HoH’s new Market Coordinator, it allows her to combine her academic interest in urban and individual environments with a desire to effect change.

A Mission Rooted in Food Access

“I just wanted to help out in any way that I could,” Endres said. “In terms of the mission of it and food insecurity… there should be more food as a human right, and access to it.”

From Environmental Studies to Urban Research

Endres earned her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies from Loyola University New Orleans, where she focused on social sciences and humanities. She is in her final year of her master’s program in Urban Studies at Drexel, where her research has centered on homelessness and the right to housing.

“I’m probably more of a people person than I am a lab person,” Endres explains. “Conversations, kind of the narratives and stories behind how people construct their environments… that’s very interesting to me.”

A Community of Givers

For Endres, that sense of community is part of what makes the work meaningful. The market is not just a reflection of those who receive, but also those who give.

“House of Hope has a good stack of regular volunteers,” she said. “They’ve been really helpful, both in the transition… and also just in general knowing the community.”

Building a Broader Network of Support

Looking ahead, she hopes House of Hope can continue building relationships with other organizations and serve as part of a broader network of support.

“I’d love to see how House of Hope can either be a partner with other organizations or kind of a space for other… connections within other organizations,” Endres said. “There are great organizations doing all sorts of things that, if they came together, you could kind of tackle so many more things.”

Beyond the Market

Outside of her work and studies, Endres also volunteers with Poor People’s Army, a Philadelphia-based social movement organization, where she said she found another space rooted in community, poverty advocacy, and shifting power toward those most affected. She enjoys crafting and is an avid reader (“I can read something when it's not assigned to me real easily,” she jokes).