I am a Food, Labor, and Culture Historian specializing in web publishing, digital collections management, and curation with 12+ years in business development and entrepreneurship, and cultural heritage management. Check out my current and past projects and work.
I have had the great luck of working with amazing people and organizations. Click to learn more about the projects I have worked on.
My interest in food and labor came organically through my own work in the food and beverage industry where I did it all at some point. I worked in a rural McDonald's in Michigan as a teen, served and bartended at a blue-collar bar in downtown Lansing, managed Harvest, one of the longest running restaurants in the Boston-area, waited tables at Highland Kitchen, a hip Somerville eatery, and headed up the Nibble Entrepreneurship Program in support of immigrants in and around Somerville interested in starting their own food businesses. My experiences in the industry and relationships with hard-working people led to my research projects based on food, labor, race, gender, and economics. Here is a snapshot of some of that work. I would be remiss to leave out these chapters of my professional life.
Nibble Somerville
Highland Kitchen
Harvest
