Chef, Educator & Author

Bryant Terry, an award-winning chef, educator and author renowned for his activism to create a healthy, just, and sustainable food system, is: Editor-in-Chief of 4 Color Books (an imprint of Penguin Random House and Ten-Speed Press); Co-Principal and Innovation Director of the Zenmi creative studio; and Chef-in-Residence at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco. His most recent (2021) and 6th book, Black Food, was among the most widely critically acclaimed food-related books of recent years. His other books include: Vegetable Kingdom, Afro-Vegan, and Vegan Soul Kitchen. For the 2022-2023 academic year Bryant is also an Artist Fellow at UC Berkeley as a member of the second cohort of Abolition Democracy Fellows, working between the Black Studies and Art Practice Departments.

Rapper, Educator and Vegan Chef

DJ Cavem, raised in Denver’s Five Points district (aka the "Harlem of the West”), a rapper who coined the term “eco-hip hop” in 2007, is also an educator and vegan chef on a mission to raise consciousness about climate change, food justice and plant-based foods far and wide. His albums and EPs include: The Teacher’s Lounge; The Produce Section; and, most recently the BIOMIMICZ project. Cavem has performed and spoken widely, nationally and internationally, collaborating with many artists and sharing the stage with such luminaries as Nick Jonas, Public Enemy, 2 Chains, Questlove and Wyclef Jean. He and his wife and collaborator, Arasia “Alkemia” Earth, founded and run the Vita Earth Foundation, which hosts health and wellness summer camps, “culinary concerts" and "Recipes for Resistance" workshops, which focus on culinary climate action.