Regenerative Baking #29: Rae Gomes of Community Kitchen

The final episode of Season 3 features an incredible interview with Rae Gomes (@raegomes), the Executive Director of Community Kitchen, and a real food policy powerhouse. Community Kitchen ran a sliding-scale fine dining restaurant out of the Lower East Side Girls Club earlier this year, and gathered a ton of data from this pilot program, which they’re now reviewing in preparation for their next chapter of this very exciting project.

Aside from Community Kitchen, Rae is the Founder & Principal of Cultivating Justice, through which she’s developed community-driven solutions like Root To Wellness, a food-as-medicine project bringing subsidized CSA programs to Central Brooklyn. She’s also the co-founder of Central Brooklyn Food Cooperative; a 2021 Urban Design Forum Fellow with a Food Equity focus; *and* was a member of Mayor Adams’ transition team for food policy. She also has a master’s in creative nonfiction.

In this episode, we get into food hubs, why community fridges aren't the solution everyone thinks they are, who's really profiting off the food system, a ton of organizations all working to build a better food system, the challenges of bringing people into food policy, dreams of public restaurants, and so, so much more.

Full show notes and further reading links available at dresslerparsons.com/regenerativebaking

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