Trisha Chakrabarti
Affiliated Consultant
As an affiliated consultant working with DAISA, Trisha is leading a year-long project to explore Equitable Food-Oriented Development as a practice and the organizations that do this work on the ground. Prior to that, she was Director of Programs and Policy at Mandela MarketPlace, 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 self-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. A new resident of New York, she currently volunteers as a fundraiser for the Central Brooklyn Food Cooperative.
Affiliated Consultant
As an affiliated consultant working with DAISA, Trisha is leading a year-long project to explore Equitable Food-Oriented Development as a practice and the organizations that do this work on the ground. Prior to that, she was Director of Programs and Policy at Mandela MarketPlace, 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 self-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. A new resident of New York, she currently volunteers as a fundraiser for the Central Brooklyn Food Cooperative.