mavis-jay sanders

Mavis-Jay is a James Beard Award winning chef for leadership. She is a social and racial equity activist who has dedicated her career to fighting for food justice in Black and low-income communities. The impact of her work has been increasingly recognized by the organizations that celebrate and support excellence in the industry. She's garnered not only a feature in a collaborative exhibit between The Museum of Food & Drink (MOFAD) and The Africa Center, a Game Changer Award by Dine Diaspora as well, she's also been honored as one of Star Chefs’ New York Rising Stars. She is a James Beard Chef’s Policy Boot Camp alum and a mentor to the James Beard Foundation’s Fellowship Program. She can also be found as a establishing board member of the Queer Food Foundation, on God’s Love We Deliver’s culinary counsel, and in the Black Farmer Fund investment committee.

A Sanders Thing is an organization working towards creating safe food ecosystem for Black communities to be self determinate.