Jocelyn Jackson

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.