Laurie M. Tisch is president of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, which works to increase access and opportunity in the areas of arts and arts education, healthy food, national service, and economic potential in New York City and beyond. Hallmark programs include the Arts in Health initiative and Healthy Food and Community Change, which established the Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education and Policy at Teachers College, Columbia University. Tisch is a trustee of the Aspen Institute and the Whitney Museum of American Art, vice chair at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and chair emeritus of the Children’s Museum of Manhattan and the Center for Arts Education.
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To address the food deserts throughout many of New York City’s low-income communities, the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund (LMTIF) leveraged public and private partnerships...