Stay Informed!

By Sean Luechtefeld on 04/18/2011 @ 11:00 AM

For over 30 years, CFED has worked hard to identify solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing low- and moderate-income Americans. Our list of accomplishments is long, and CFED is an industry leader in expanding economic opportunity and building assets for all Americans.

Occasionally, CFED staff take a break from advancing the assets movement to do some work along somewhat different lines. Each spring, a group of CFEDers gets together to build a diorama out of Peeps – those sugar-coated, marshmallow-y bunnies that inundate the market every year around Easter – and enter it into the Washington Post’s Peeps Diorama contest.

This is not a joke.

This year, the team placed in the top five out of over 900 entries! The team of eight – Kristin Lawton, LeElaine Comer, Kasey Wiedrich, Ethan Geiling, Kim Pate, Michelle Nguyen, Jane Hanley and Ida Rademacher – was recognized in yesterday’s Washington Post for their creativity in portraying the 2010 introduction of body scanners in airport security lines in a lighthearted way.

The diorama, shown above, was featured in a video that illustrates how the team worked together to create a detailed, two-sided diorama. On the left, the airport security line is shown, with many Peeps waiting in a long line with luggage that the team crafted from foam. On the right, two TSA agents search the Peeps using the controversial body scanners that caused quite the stir last fall.

While the good folks at DCist recognized that Team CFED got robbed and deserved first place, there’s still a chance to show your support for what was clearly the best diorama in the contest (yes, I’m biased). You can vote for fan favorite by clicking here, and in early May or, if you're in the DC area, you can check out the Peeps dioramas in person at Artomatic.

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