Moderator:

Emily Ziemski has studied at the Culinary Institute of America and CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. She most recently worked at Roads & Kingdoms.

Panelists:

Natalie Pattillo is a multimedia journalist based in New York City. As a woman of color, she fuses food and social justice to not only report on restaurants and cuisine, but also to highlight the people, communities, and cultures that are its backbone. Calling out the discrimination, exoticification, gentrification, and Columbusing that so often occurs in the industry is crucial to her work. Her work has appeared in places like Edible Manhattan, Edible Brooklyn, Munchies, New York Magazine, Vice, Pacific Standard Magazine, Eater NY, Refinery29, Narratively, The Nation, and more. Natalie was born in Singapore and moved to West Texas when she was nine. She lives in Harlem with her daughter Amora and her fiancé Colton.

Mayukh Sen is a Staff Writer at MUNCHIES, VICE’s food publication. His writing has appeared in VICE.com, Vulture, ELLE, the FADER, Pitchfork, and a number of other publications. He was previously a Staff Writer at Food52. He is represented by William Callahan at InkWell Management.

Anne E. McBride covers topics related to chefs and restaurants, global culinary events, and pastry for consumer and academic audiences, including past contributions to Bake from Scratch, Plate, New Worlder, Roads & Kingdoms, Food Arts, Gastronomica, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America. She has co-authored six books, and organizes culinary conferences for the Culinary Institute of America. A native of Switzerland, Anne holds a PhD in food studies from New York University.