(he/him)

As an educator, Brent Mansfield teaches Edible Education as a specialist teacher at Lord Roberts Elementary in the Vancouver School Board. He is a co-founder of LunchLAB, an educational lunch program run that provides Grade 6 and 7 student leaders with hands-on, cross-curricular learning around food literacy. Brent is an advocate for school food programs and has worked as part of the Coalition for Healthy School Food, both nationally and in co-founding the BC Chapter. In 2023, he undertook a number of runs, around his elementary school and at Parliament in Ottawa, as publicity stunts to help ensure the federal investment of $1 Billion over 5 years in a National School Food Program. 

Brent lives and works from the unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.