Trisha Chakrabarti
Director, Equitable Food Oriented Development (EFOD)
(she, her, hers)
As the Manager of the EFOD Collaborative, Trisha leads a collective strategy building the field of Equitable Food Oriented Development, alongside the Collaborative's national steering committee of community-rooted organizations. Prior to that, she was Director of Programs and Policy at Mandela Partners, where she led community-based programming and research in food access, clinical-community linkages, SNAP/EBT acceptance, and healthy retailing.
Trisha has worked in community food programming at the San Francisco/Marin Food Bank, was a research fellow at Food First, and has led participatory food access research and advocacy initiatives with restaurant workers and systems-impacted youth. She grew up in the South Asian diaspora, and sees a community-owned food system as a key indicator of political and economic sovereignty. She holds a BA in Political Economy from UC Berkeley, and Masters Degrees in Food Policy and Public Health from Tufts University, where she was a Block Direct Service Fellow. Trisha was raised in, lives in, and has a special place in her heart for the SF East Bay area.
Director, Equitable Food Oriented Development (EFOD)
(she, her, hers)
As the Manager of the EFOD Collaborative, Trisha leads a collective strategy building the field of Equitable Food Oriented Development, alongside the Collaborative's national steering committee of community-rooted organizations. Prior to that, she was Director of Programs and Policy at Mandela Partners, where she led community-based programming and research in food access, clinical-community linkages, SNAP/EBT acceptance, and healthy retailing.
Trisha has worked in community food programming at the San Francisco/Marin Food Bank, was a research fellow at Food First, and has led participatory food access research and advocacy initiatives with restaurant workers and systems-impacted youth. She grew up in the South Asian diaspora, and sees a community-owned food system as a key indicator of political and economic sovereignty. She holds a BA in Political Economy from UC Berkeley, and Masters Degrees in Food Policy and Public Health from Tufts University, where she was a Block Direct Service Fellow. Trisha was raised in, lives in, and has a special place in her heart for the SF East Bay area.
