Grace Young is an award-winning cookbook author, culinary historian, and Chinatown advocate. In 2022, she received the James Beard Foundation’s Humanitarian of the Year Award. Her video series Coronavirus: Chinatown Stories documents the toll of the pandemic on New York City’s Chinese community.
She will speak about gentrification in Chinatowns across the U.S., the effects of the pandemic, and her efforts to preserve AAPI small businesses and Chinese culinary traditions. Young will be interviewed by Tommy Wong, owner of Civic Design Studio, which works on community impact initiatives across Oakland, and co-founder of Good Good Eatz, a project during the pandemic to support ethnic food districts and underrepresented businesses.
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