Our Collaborators

The YSFP is one of the Special Academic Programs housed in the Yale College Dean’s Office. While the majority of students who work with the YSFP are enrolled in Yale College, we also work with students and faculty in Yale’s graduate and professional schools, notably with the Yale School of the Environment, the Law School, the Divinity School, the School of Management, and in collaboration with the Yale Landscape Lab at West Campus, the schools of Nursing, Medicine, and Public Health.

Under the auspices of several laboratories, programs, and centers, students enrolled in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences conduct disciplinary research on a range of agriculture and food topics. In partnership with these groups, the YSFP collaborates on a range of initiatives that span across disciplines and levels of study.

Food systems work is always community-engaged work, whether it is framed as primarily theoretical or practical. The YSFP supports community-driven change, and does not presume that our staff or students are the best people to assess, prioritize, or drive change that is distant from their expertise and homes. To this end, we provide awards and fellowships for Yale students to listen to and learn from community-based and community-engaged experts in the wider New Haven area and around the world, whether associated with civil society, public sector, or private sector organizations. We encourage students to act in service of community-identified needs. In accordance with this approach to community engagement, the YSFP generally does not directly initiate new service programs, but rather, seeks to situate students in the field and on the ground in support of established community-based organizations.

Below are a few examples of our past and current collaborators:

On-Campus Collaborators:

Afro-American Cultural Center
Asian American Cultural Center
Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration
Center for Teaching and Learning
Center for Business & Environment
Environmental Humanities Initiative
Joseph Slifka Center
La Casa Cultural
Landscape Lab at West Campus
Native American Cultural Center
Office of LGBTQ Resources
Poynter Fellowship in Journalism
Program in the History of Science & Medicine
Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking
Yale College Dean’s Office
Yale Hospitality
Yale School of Art
Yale School of the Environment

Off-Campus Collaborators:

CitySeed
GreenWave
IPES-Food
MAD
Massaro Community Farm
Row 7 Seed
The Bread Lab at Washington State University
The Global Alliance for the Future of Food