Welcome to our Virtual Living room space with your host Rosangel Perez.
Our topic today on Cafecito Break: Cultivating Mindfulness with Food with Chef Gabriela Alvarez
Gabriela Álvarez is a health-supportive chef and founder of Liberation Cuisine. In the kitchen she values food energetics and flavor alike; integrates mindfulness and cooking tips into any workshop, training, or consultation.
Gabriela sees food as an essential part of the journey towards liberation, whether individual or collective. She has a deep commitment to people-led movements for social change and uses food to nourish the healthy bodies and clear minds that will sustain these movements.
She's Health Wellness Coordinator and teaches youth cooking classes at El Puente, empowering young people to reclaim their own wellbeing and that of their community. As an activist and healer, Gabriela surrounds herself with mujeres organizing around food, the land, undoing unequal sociopolitical structures, and the decolonization of Puerto Ricans.
Gabriela received a bachelor's degree in Community Health from Brown University, went on to become a holistic health coach at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and studied the culinary arts at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts.
Gabriela Álvarez
Liberation Cuisine
www.chefgabrielaalvarez.com