Lolis Eric Elie — writer, journalist, documentarian, screenwriter, and man-about-town — is a native New Orleanian and a resident of his beloved Tremé, the oldest African American neighborhood in America.
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Davia Nelson is one half of NPR’s Kitchen Sisters(with Nikki Silva). The Kitchen Sisters have produced over 300 stories for public broadcast. They chronicle hidden bits of history and subjects who have shaped our diverse cultural landscape. . . .
Co-founder with yours truly of the Ridenhour Prizes for Courageous Truth Telling, Hamilton Fish (“Ham” to friends and associates) is an American publisher, social entrepreneur and film producer. . . .
As a little boy in Philadelphia, Alon Shaya spent most of his time in the kitchen with his mother and grandmother, which instilled in him a passion for cooking. . . .