Workshops &
Breakout Sessions

Travis McKenzie is a Chicano that grew up in the East Mountains of NM. He is a Teacher at Polk Middle School where he teaches NM History and is the school's Garden Resource Teacher. He is a Food Justice and Community Organizer with the Southwest Organizing Project, and he is a part of the leadership team of Rooted In Community, a National Youth Food Justice network. He is co-founder of Project Feed the Hood and has been doing Food Justice work in Albuquerque for almost two decades. His passion is working with young people and helping to create edible landscapes and agricultural spaces across the city and in our world. He works hard to create internships and programs for youth to engage with agricultural work and activate themselves to remember their connection with our sacred Mother Earth and empower them to want to create positive social change in our community.

Mariah Gladstone is a Native American chef, food and environmental advocate, entrepreneur, and educator. Gladstone is founder of the online cooking platform, Indigikitchen, where she focuses on the use of Indigenous recipes and ingredients to teach Native American communities how to prepare traditional foods.

Philly born + raised, Khaliah D. Pitts is an author, multidisciplinary activist-artist + speaker dedicated to crafting spaces of liberation, celebration + joy.
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Her artistic practice is storytelling as a means of cultural, + self-, preservation. She explores in the mediums of literature, poetic ethnography, video art, memory/altarwork, land + kitchen arts. She was awarded a Leeway Transformation Award for her extensive work in socially engaged art.
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With over fifteen years of experience, Khaliah is unmatched as a facilitator + public speaker. From community center basements to corporate board rooms, she is very well practiced in delivering audience-specific communication on a variety of subjects. She is a trauma informed facilitator, excelling in training, mediation, influential speaking + audience engagement.
Khaliah is author of we / sun people / mypeople, co-founder / co-director of Our Mothers’ Kitchens, + sits on the Leadership Team of the National Black Food + Justice Alliance