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Feed the Mass - Episode 5 w/ Jacobsen Valentine


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My guest on this episode is Jacobsen Valentine. Jacobsen is a chef, photographer, activist, and lover of people. He is the founder and executive director of Feed the Mass, a non-profit with the goal of bringing people together through food. They started as a non-profit cooking school, and since the onset of COVID, have been feeding over 1,500 people a week, all for free, all with locally sourced, healthy ingredients, all donated by local individuals and restaurants.

He’s also the founder of Empowerment Central, a co-working space specifically for the BIPOC community in Portland.

We talked all about growing up in Hawaii, what prompted a career in cooking, and how that led him to start devoting his life to meeting the needs of the people of Portland.

Feed the Mass

Web: feedthemass.org
Instagram: @feedthemass


Empowerment Central
Web: empowermentcentralpdx.org
Instagram: @empowerment.central.pdx

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