Jocelyn Jackson is an award-winning chef, artist, teacher, and activist. Raised in Kansas by a Tuskegee Airman and Wichita’s first Black woman mayoral candidate, she studied art and law on her way to food justice. After serving as a Natural Resource Volunteer in Mali, she earned an MS in Environmental Education. Now based in the Bay Area, she is the Chef-in-Residence at the Museum of the African Diaspora and co-founder of People’s Kitchen Collective, a social practice group that’s done food projects such as the FARM KITCHEN TABLE STREETS meal, EARTH SEED, and the documentary film, “EARTH SEED: A People’s Journey of Radical Hospitality.” A celebrated artist and chef, she has received numerous grants and awards, including from Creative Capital and the Mellon Foundation, and has published work on food and justice.
2025 Democracy Dialogues
Speaker – Mutual Aid and Community Care in California
