Scholar, Organizer, Storyteller

LaDonna Sanders Redmond is a nationally recognized food justice activist, historian, and graduate student whose work spans community organizing, public policy, academic scholarship, and public speaking.

Her journey into food justice began in Chicago's West Side, where she co-founded the Campaign for Better Food in Chicago Public Schools and helped establish one of the city's first community gardens in a food desert. That work grew into a decades-long career at the forefront of the food justice movement.

LaDonna has served as a policy advocate, community organizer, and educator — working with organizations from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to the NAACP to the James Beard Foundation. She brings a historian's rigor and an organizer's urgency to every stage she steps onto.

As a graduate student, her research centers on Black agrarianism, the history of African American food sovereignty movements, and the political economy of food in Black communities. She is committed to making that scholarship accessible — through essays, lectures, and public engagement.