My name is Catalina Martinez and I live in Harlem, NY. Throughout last year, I worked as a brand ambassador for the rising non-profit organization Cultured Kids Cuisine. Mia Kotikovski, a class of 2020 graduate, founded Cultured Kids shortly after her departure from Brooklyn Tech. She aimed to create Cultured Kids, a woman-led and dominated organization which encouraged female initiative […]
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Malcom Deluca Guest Blog
My name is Malcolm Deluca and I live in Queens, a borough of New York City. Queens is the most ethnically diverse borough in the world. There are over 800 different dialects spoken in Queens. One of the best things about living in Queens is that it is impossible to shield yourself from different human experiences. When you live in […]
Founder of the Queens Night Market, John Wang
The site of a hundred independent food vendors across the grassy lawn of Flushing Meadow Park always makes my stomach growl in eager anticipation. This is the Queens Night Market, a cultural festival that offers food from over 90 countries through NY’s immigrant communities. John Wang is the Founder. Only six years old, it almost immediately became an icon of […]
NY State Senator, John Liu
Senator John Liu is a Democratic NY State Senator for District 11, covering Northeast Queens. He is also a long-time Queens resident, who immigrated at the age of 5 from Taiwan. We chatted via Zoom to discuss the amazing food cultures in his district, as well as ways to build both food security and community resilience going forward. Do you […]
Filling a Food Pantry Void, Victor Dadras
Victor Dadras is an urban architect specializing in Main Street Downtown Revitalization Planning, a Partner at Dadras Architects and Adjunct Professor at the Parsons School of Design/The New School. He is also a longtime community leader in Queens, Founder of the Douglaston Local Development Corporation (DLDC) and impromptu organizer of food pantries in Northeast Queens. Victor and I sat 6 […]
Beekeeper & Community Gardener, Ruth Harrigan
Ruth Harrigan is a Queens-based beekeeper with hives across NYC. Her company HoneyGramz sells honey from her beehives in Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island, while also donating a percentage of profits towards efforts to save bee populations. Ruth is also an avid gardener, both in her own yard and in community gardens across NYC. Ruth and I had a zoom […]