Join me, The Cultured Vegan for an event you don’t want to miss. SERC of UC Berkeley presents:Planting the Seeds for Justice: Black Women Reimagining the Food SystemDate: 08/11/2020
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm PDT
Speakers: Chef Rain Truth, Pinky Winchester, Candice Elder, Ayano Jeffers-Fabro
RSVP form: bit.ly/3g9ulbk The event link will be sent to your email that you provide on the RSVP form.
Event Description: In light of the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement, the Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) is hosting a panel on Black-led food advocacy efforts. The goal of this panel is to deepen participants’ understanding of the intersection between food advocacy and racial justice. SERC is excited and honored to present four incredible Black, female-identifying leaders to share their experiences as leaders within the food justice movement:
Pinky Winchester—Pinky & Red’s
Rain Truth—The Cultured Vegan
Candice Elder—East Oakland Collective
Ayano Jeffers-Fabro—Acta Non Verba
More detailed speaker bios below. The event will take place on August 11th, from 6:00-8:00pm PDT via Zoom. The workshop will include speaker introductions, a moderated Q&A session, and breakout rooms with the speakers.
To register for the event, please fill out the RSVP form by August 10, 2020. A Zoom link will be sent out to your email prior to the event. ————————————————————
Speaker Bios:Pinky Winchester, Pinky & Red’s:Pinky Winchester is the Founder and Executive Chef of Pinky & Red’s. This local restaurant, located within UC Berkeley’s MLK Student Union, specializes in soulful comfort food and brings the traditions of “old-fashioned Sunday dinners” and Southern hospitality to the hustle and bustle of college life. Pinky’s entrepreneurial spirit and amazing culinary skills have earned her the high praise of the campus community and the title of having one of the best chicken sandwiches in the Bay Area. Pinky hopes to continue sharing her love of soul food with students and eventually the entire country.—————————————————————
Rain Truth, The Cultured Vegan:Chef Rain Truth is a celebrity chef, ServSafe Instructor and the owner and founder of “The Cultured Vegan,” a 100% vegan, family-owned catering business based in Chicago, IL. Classically trained at The Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago (Le Cordon Bleu) and New York’s Main Street Vegan Academy, Rain is a certified Vegan Lifestyle Coach and Educator, using her own experience as a plant-based chef and mother to teach culinary classes and spread her love of healthy, nourishing food to others in her community and beyond. She is also the founder of the Midwest Vegan Fest and Vegan Sol Food and Drink Expo which brings in 4,000+ attendees each year. —————————————————————
Candice Elder, East Oakland Collective (EOC): Candice Elder, an East Oakland native, is the Founder and Executive Director of the East Oakland Collective (EOC). It was the long stemming disinvestment and lack of resources in East Oakland that compelled Candice to found this grassroots membership based organization harnessing the collective power of millennials. EOC focuses on civic engagement and leadership, economic empowerment and advocacy, organizing, policy and housing justice for some of Oakland’s most vulnerable populations—Black residents and our unhoused neighbors. —————————————————————
Ayano Jeffers-Fabro, Acta Non Verba: Ayano K. Jeffers-Fabro is the Project Manager for the East Oakland Grocery Cooperative; and an independent consultant for community food initiatives. Her experience growing up in the rural sugar-plantation town of Waialua, Hawai`i and now residing in East Oakland gives her the insight to draw urban-rural parallels around impacts that gentrification, social disenfranchisement, economic disinvestment and lack of resources in communities of color, has on creating and sustaining a healthy, thriving community. Ayano sees and lives through the food apartheid mechanisms in motion, and can utilize her talents and callings to combat these oppressive forces and inter-generationally heal community.RSVP form: bit.ly/3g9ulbk
