Advocacy

The James Beard Foundation

chair of the leadership awards committee

The James Beard Foundation’s Leadership Awards spotlight the important and complex realms of sustainability, food justice, and public health. They raise awareness of these timely issues by celebrating the visionaries responsible for creating a healthier, safer, and more equitable, and sustainable food system.

The Leadership Awards recognize specific outstanding initiatives as well as bodies of work and lifetime achievement. The excellence of work, innovation in approach, and scale of impact within a community or the nation are among the criteria used to select the recipients. Honorees are chosen by a volunteer committee of experts and the cohort of past Leadership Award recipients. 

- www.Jamesbeard.org/Leadershipawards

On the board of SÜPRMARKT’s non-profit, SÜPRSEED.

Board member

SÜPRMARKT provides organic vegan groceries to those affected by food apartheid in South LA.

Lakisha has volunteered and worked in a freelance capacity with SÜPRMARKT since 2019. Her contributions ranged from helping with daily operations to helping produce + host SÜPRMARKT’s grand opening block party, where they shut down Slauson Ave. in South Central, LA in June 2024.