The Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy stands with and in support of our community of educators, students, parents, and partners in rejecting the dehumanization, violence against, and loss of Black lives.

Over the past weeks we have seen and felt the inequality and inequity in our education, health, economic, food, and justice systems. These inequalities are not new or unknown, they are built into government and institutional systems reflecting over 400 years of structural racism that normalizes and ignores the discrimination, hate, and violence against Black Americans.

The COVID-19 pandemic exposes these systemic issues, showing that communities of color face extreme disparities in health outcomes and economic pain. As an organization that is committed to fighting against racism and health inequities we feel that pain and know there is much more work ahead. Teachers College President Thomas Bailey challenged the members of our college community on what we could do differently:

“We can continue to work to eradicate racism in our own community. We can continue to develop culturally relevant pedagogies, to support events and programming that promote equity, and to advocate for social justice in our respective fields.” - Teachers College President Tomas Bailey

Our vision is to transform the status quo through food and nutrition education. We recognize more than ever that to truly transform the status quo we must disrupt systemic racism and create more just practices and systems for all. These are goals we commit to along with our colleagues in the Program in Nutrition.

In our research, organizing, and advocacy we commit to working with our community to fight against racism and oppression in our education, health, economic, food, and political systems.