Hi All,

If you missed my interview last Thursday with Gabriela Álvarez, then you’ll want to listen to it below. Gabriela is the founder and chef behind Liberation Cuisine, a food service operation dedicated to cooking exclusively for people doing justice work in the world: whether it is a grassroots organization doing food sovereignty work, or a group of artists, healers, farmers, or educators, Gabriela is there! She began cooking after studying Community Health at Brown University. The kitchen became her way to tackle health disparities and inequalities in the food system while still maintaining a focus on self-determination and ancestral healing practices. 

After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, Gabriela hopped on a plane, and partnered with AgitArte, to cook and feed the local artists in some of the rural areas of Puerto Rico. AgitArte is an organization of working class artists and cultural organizers who create projects and practices of cultural solidarity with grassroots struggles against oppression, and propose alternatives that generate possibilities for transformations in our world. They initiate and lead community-based educational and arts programs, along with projects that agitate in the struggles for liberation. By helping to cook for the local people, Gabriela freed them up to work on some of the other emergency issues at hand. If you would like to donate to Gabriela’s ongoing work with AgitArte, visit her fundraising site here!