Project Reflect, in partnership with SupplyChange LLC, conducted a comprehensive research project to provide deeper understanding of the current state of supply chain transparency in California's school food system. The work resulted in contributions to the 2025 California Farm to School Incubator Grant Program Evaluation Report, with a longer report to be released in the near future.

Project Reflect partnered with Jones Valley Teaching Farm (JVTF) in Birmingham, Alabama, to explore how joy could serve as a transformational tool in their work with students, staff, and the local community.

Transforming the Student Dining Experience: Ten Years of Change in the San Francisco Unified School District

This assessment is part of the joyful design framework and provides the beginnings of a method to understand what joy means to our communities and to assess if programs make space for that joy to exist.

Presenting on the A3C’s of Systems Design at Foothill College’s campus-wide speaker series, The Art of Community: Conversations on Shared Values.

Feeding America is a non-profit organization that is a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks that feed more than 46 million people. Project Reflect partnered with their Health Innovation team to facilitate a joyful design workshop.

The upcoming book, "Driving Design II," published by the Distributed Design Platform and co-funded by the European Union, features a chapter about Project Reflect and the concept of joyful design.

Eat Fresh. Waste Less. Get to Know Your Neighbors.

The 2024 Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor Lecture took place at Stanford University and featured a panel discussion with the four Distinguished Visitors on climate resilience and sustainability.

This summer, Angela traveled to three rural school districts to observe, document and interview participants about their experiences with the new Summer 2023 Non-Congregate Meal Service in Rural Communities program.

Extending the life expectancy of Black women by ten years

The Alice Water’s Institute (AWI) will be a teaching and advocacy center at UC Davis, one of California’s leading public universities and home of one of the world’s leading agriculture schools.

In partnership with King’s College London Business School, Sustainable Gastro and Nordic Talks, we explored how the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 0 represents the idea that joy should be at the center of how we approach solving global issues like food system transformation.

The LunchTrox, a concept developed by the Project Reflect Lab