Dining Advisory Board

The Dining Advisory Board (DAB) officially represents student interests related to Northeastern University dining services. The Board was created in response to the No Hungry Huskies campaign and is a diverse set of students who are working together with administration and to continuously improve the dining experience on campus for students.

If you have any questions about the recent meal plan reform and the part that SGA played in it, please visit our FAQ or contact sgaCampusAffairs@northeastern.edu.

Leadership

Chair

Daniel Zeng

Meeting Times

Wednesdays from 8-9pm in Curry Student Center 342

Board MEmbers

  • Nicole Contreras

  • Ying Lin

  • Kimberly Kanchas

  • Matthew Denich

  • Brendan Ferguson, Slow Foods Ex-officio

  • Maryam Abdus Salaam, U-F1RST Ex-officio

  • Malvern Mudiwa, Graduate Student Government Ex-officio

  • Yashaswi Alur Prasannakumar, Graduate Student Government Ex-officio

  • Anirudh Kashyap, Resident Student Association Ex-officio

Initiatives in Progress

  • Increasing food variety on campus

  • Helping inform students about how to most efficiently use meal plans (e.g. where to dine off campus using husky dollars)

  • Addressing dining hall allergy concerns

  • Organize weekly face-to-face conversations between board and diverse campus organizations to gather actionable recommendations for NUDining administration

  • Collect input from student groups to increase dining and nutritional variety

  • Mitigate food insecurity on campus and surrounding neighborhoods by connecting with appropriate clubs

  • Advocate for more campus organizations to elect ex-officio members to serve on the board

Past Accomplishments

  • Reformed the meal plan with administration into the NU Meal Plan 2024-2025, with increased plan flexibility, reduced price, and greater access for graduate students

  • Dining website focus groups and recommended reforms

  • Pawsitive Patron initiative (aka secret shopper program) with administration to get insights on opinions of food vendor options

  • Evaluated student opinion and effectiveness of new meal plans

  • Assisted the NUDining team with optimizing the readability of the new dining website