A Seat at the Table: Engaging Communities in Defining Racially-Equitable Food Access Solutions

For a long time, BIPOC community leaders have been excluded from decisions about their own communities. When they have been included they are often tokenized or uncompensated. This report recognizes that lived experience is a form of expertise, and shares steps for valuing, incorporating, and uplifting that expertise by way of co-creation.

This report aims to provide a framework for working with community partners and members with lived experience to design racially-equitable, sustainable, and community-based food access solutions.