Dr. Robert S. Harvey is an educator, community strategist, advocate for justice and equity, writer, and arts and food enthusiast. His bold vision for the future of human justice and a democracy that works for all has a threefold focus—love, justice, and hope.He is the President of FoodCorps, a national organization committed to a future where every child has access to nourishing food, working at the intersection of food, racial, and economic justice. He leads all aspects of the organization’s internal strategy, operations, impact, policy-partnerships, and growth as it seeks to realize its 2030 vision.Prior to FoodCorps, he was Superintendent of East Harlem Scholars Academies, community-based public charter schools (PreK-12), and Chief Academic Officer of East Harlem Tutorial Program, managing an Out-of-School Time (OST) program and Teaching Residency. He is also a visiting professor in public leadership at Memphis Theological Seminary.He is author of Abolitionist Leadership in Schools: Undoing Systemic Injustice through Communally Conscious Education (2021), which works from an abolitionist lineage to guide education and community-based leaders in providing preemptive, premeditated, and progressive leadership while countering the impacts of racism that endure in our schools and communities. In February 2022, his second book was released, Teaching as Protest: Emancipating Classrooms through Racial Consciousness. He has written for Education Post, Education Week, Chalkbeat, Education Dive, TheGrio, Blavity, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and academic journals. He is a Pahara Institute Fellow, and serves on boards impacting education, the arts, racial and economic equity; and is currently Board Chair for The Current Project, a New York City-based nonprofit committed to the social and economic liberation of Black single mothers.