Chef Crystal Wahpepah is an enrolled member of the Kickapoo nation of Oklahoma. She was born and raised in Oakland, California, on Ohlone land, surrounded by a multi-tribal, tight-knit, urban Native community. She received the Indigenous Artist Activist Award and has been inducted into the Native American Almanac for being one of the first Native American women to own a catering business. She has traveled all over the country attending food summits and building networks with other Native American and Indigenous farmers, land stewards and chefs.
Wahpepah’s Kitchen will be catering the event at the Craneway, and Crystal will speak on where her food comes from and honors its roots, its Indigenous cultivators and stewards, and its place within the seasons.