Researcher of Food Cultures, focusing on Afrodiasporic ancestry and sustainability. As a producer of gastronomic events, for years it has promoted meetings where food is the protagonist of unusual experiences and the path to entertainment.

As a teacher and speaker, she has been talking about food as a political act, a communication tool and an agent of social change. And as a TEDx Speaker, in 2020, she participated in the event in São Paulo with her presentation “Peel more and Unpack less”. Creator of the self-training course “Far Beyond Boca, a transatlantic tour of Afrodiasporic food in Brazil”, available on the Itaú Cultural platform.

In 2011, he co-founded BOS Barbecue, bringing to Brazil the culinary smoking technique hitherto unheard of in the country. Through BOS Barbecue she met and participated in several gastronomic events in the United States and Europe. From these experiences would be born the idea of Churrascada, of which he is Co-Founder and Executive Curator.

Living in Amsterdam since 2016, there he founded SOIL Vegan Café in Amsterdam of which he is Chef and Creative Director. In the current two SOIL units, Bottino takes the experience of the world of Barbecue to the vegetable universe. Gustavo is also a consultant for Food and Beverage companies through Stoke Ventures, his consulting and management company.

Author, professor, filmmaker, curator, scholar, and chair and director of Dillard University's Ray Charles Program in African American Material Culture in New Orleans. Palmer documents the legacy of African-American, Creole, Native American, and Latino culinary history. She filmed and produced the documentary Story of New Orleans Creole Cooking: The Black Hand in the Pot. She recently published "Recipes and Remembrances of Fair Dillard: 1869-2019" and "Ed Mitchell's Barbeque"

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Her research is published in some of the most prestigious publications in the United States. She hosts the Culture & Flavor podcast on the Heritage Radio Network and is the founder of the Nellie Murray Feast. She has been a guest or keynote speaker at NYU, Nicholls State University, Maryville University, University of Gastronomic Sciences (Turin, Italy) Essence Festival and the 2022 American Community Gardening Association Conference.

Aimée Wallin is the Co- Director of Ghana Food Movement (GFM). She is passionate about youth empowerment, black food culture and community building in food and agriculture. GFM is a network of stakeholders in food and agriculture in Ghana. They connect farmers, entrepreneurs, chefs, academia, restaurateurs, and many more in the pursuit of building a stronger local food system. Through collaboration, they work for a a food environment that assures healthy and sustainable food production while creating jobs and boosting know-how and innovation locally. They organize programs, dinners, events, panel discussions and food tours to raise awareness about the potential of Ghana’s agriculture and indigenous ingredients.