is a career educator, chef, artist, and activist. As an expert in interactive culinary
Nadine Nelson nadine.nelson@gmail.com
Education
Vermont’s Table Program
education and experiential event production, she uses food as a catalyst and platform to build community, revitalize the neighborhood, preserve our cultural heritage, and empower people to lead healthier, happier, connected and more prosperous lives.
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globallocalgourmet.com
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Educator / Chef / Artist/ Owner, Global Local Gourmet Hamden, CT
Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, VT
2005 - Present | Drawing from more than 20 years in the food, hospitality, training and education industries:
Certificate in Fundraising and Philanthropy New York University, New York, NY
Certificate in Food Styling New School, New York, NY
Personal Chef Certificate from Culinary Business Academy US Personal Chef Association
• Operate multifaceted interactive culinary event company that specializes in experiential learning and integrated marketing intertwining food and culture to curate culinary learning experiences • Support, promote, and collaborate with regional farmers, food businesses, cultural institutions, small business, and other entrepreneurial enterprises to create and promote creative hands -on food-centric cultural endeavors including cooking classes, culinary tours, team building events, tastings, wellness workshops, branding content, integrated marketing and customized events based on the client's needs and expectations • Responsible for the overall planning, marketing, sales, promoting and budget for
Masters coursework in Curriculum and Program Development and Evaluation
cooking classes and events • Provide leadership, training, direction and general administration of staff including customer service and chef-instructors
Tufts University, Medford, MA
B.A. in English, Teaching Certification in English 9-12 Tufts University, Medford, MA
Founder and Principle, Sankofa Consulting Boston, MA 1995 - 2012 | Consult in areas of curriculum development, program development and evaluation, professional development and training, fundraising, and event planning for a variety of for-profit and non-profit organizations.
Nadine Nelson Selected Professional Development & Training
Dean of Community Relations / English Teacher, Beaver Country Day School, Chestnut Hill, MA 1995 - 2005 | Member of the Administrative Team, Academic Program Team, Wellness Team, Tenth Grade Teaching Team, leading a diverse range of community projects related to a commitment to community relations, inclusion, and being a valued neighbor in Greater Boston. Report to Head of School. • Department- and organization-wide strategic planning around conceptualized
Understanding by Design with Grant
comprehensive Diversity Competency/Training Model, including designing and
Wiggins
leading professional development, process facilitation, curriculum writing, and
Rubrics and Students Centered
implementation to align staff, parents, and students around strategic priorities in
Evaluation
regard to equity, inclusion, and community through events, credit, and non-credit
Teaching to Multiple Intelligences
courses.
Art and Social Change in the
• Program development, budget, and operations oversight, and evaluation
Curriculum
• Staff management, including hiring, supervision, mentoring of staff. Increased
Community, Landscape, Place, and
faculty and students populations of color to 25% - 33% in less than 5 years which
Interdisciplinary Learning
has been maintained after my tenure
Teaching for Long Blocks
• Served as consultant and liaison doing partnership development and relationship
Seeking Educational Equity and
management with other independent schools, community-based organizations,
Diversity, Creating Communities that
public agencies, individual consultants, and volunteers to develop new
Drive Change
programming and refine existing programming
Facing History in Ourselves
• A public representative for the school at local, regional and national meetings
Racial Identity Theory in Schools with
and conferences often presenting Diversity Competency/Training Model
Beverly Tatum Outward Bound Project Adventure MUG - Master in Urban Gardening Certificate Soul Fire Farm - Black and Latinx Farmers Immersion
Teacher / Administrator, Cambridge Rindge & Latin, Cambridge, MA
Edible Schoolyard Across the
1992- 1995| Organized multicultural curriculum institute for high school; designed
Curriculum
and delivered orientation training for all participants; supervised work teams consisting of high school and college students, teachers and administrators; developed project’s initiatives and implemented project’s goals; edited and aided in the development of standards-based multicultural and integrated curriculum units about violence, the old west, South Africa, India, race, and civilization.
Nadine Nelson
Selected Presentations Tale of the Cocktail: Hive to Highball - Honey Cocktails and Saving the Bees through your Bar and Kitchen Program
Skills
Yale: Stir the Pot - Creating a Healthy and Robust Food System through Citizen Involvement and Activism, Gumbo - From Africa to America,
Cooking, Community Building and Relations, Community-based Planning, Community Asset Mapping, Co - Creation, Creating a Positive Learning Environment, Creativity and Innovation, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Cross Cultural Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Lesson Planning, Delegating and Empowering Leadership, Diversity and Equity Facilitation, Economic Development, Experiential Culinary Tourism, Fundraising and External Relations, Integrated Marketing and Events, Non - Profit Consulting, Project Management, Program Design, Public Relations, Social Media Strategy, Teaching, Team Building, Translator of Culture
Building Resistance, Community and Sharing Stories of Migration Through the Communal Pot New York Nutrition Education Network: An Exploration of African Heritage Cuisine, An Experiential Presentation Newark Conservancy Winter Seminar 2019 Keynote: Stir the Pot - Creating a Healthy and Robust Food System through Citizen Involvement, Activism and Sustainability Just Food 2018: Stir the Pot: Creating a Healthy and Robust Food System through Citizen Involvement and Activism Green Thumb Grow Together 2017: Beyond the Passive Cooking Demo Interactive Culinary Education as a Nutrition and Food Justice Intervention Just Food 2017: A Call to Collaboration, "Equity and Nutrition Education" City Growers Education Conference 2017: Cooking as a Revolutionary Act Black Urban Gardeners Conference 2016: Cooking and Garden Education as a Place-making & Art Intervention Yale University, Nourish New Haven 2015: Interactive Culinary Education as a Means for Food Justice Resistance Yale University, Nourish New Haven 2014: New Haven’s Next Generation Yale 2013, Nourish New Haven: Community Assets Solving Community Issues
Expertise
Just Food 2013: Culinary Tourism as a means to create Economic Development and Revitalize Agricultural Regions
Canva, DSLR Photography, Food Styling, Interactive Media, Multi - Platform Content Creation, Non - Traditional Fundraising, Tumblr, Wordpress,
Nadine Nelson Affiliations & Memberships Chair of the New Haven Food Policy Council Cooking and Food Education Working Group EATT - Equity At The Table International Association of Culinary Professionals James Beard House New Haven Art's Council Haven's Harvest New York Women's Culinary
Selected Art Shows , Fellowships & Commissions 2019 | Yale Social Innovation Lab, Project: Master Cooks Corps and Mobile Teaching Kitchen, New Haven, CT 2019 | Sea and Soil//Water Access, Social Engagement, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT 2019 | Kitchen Sanctum, Installation and Social Engagement, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT 2018 | Laundromat Project Create Change Fellow, NYC 2018 | Stir the Pot, Social Engagement, Various Food Spaces around New Haven, CT 2017 | Daughters of the Dust Table, Franklin Park, Boston, MA 2016 | Harvest Mandalas, Solo Commission, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT 2015| | T- Stop Meal, Solo Commission, Design Studio 4 Social Intervention, Boston, MA 2014| Vagaries of the Common, Special Artist Commission, ArtSpace, New
Alliance Project Harmony
Haven, CT 2014 | Living with Soul Pop Up, Curating and Production Commission,
Slow Food
International Festival Arts and Ideas, New Haven, CT 2013 | Greens on the Green, Curating and Production Commission, International Festival Arts and Ideas, New Haven, CT
Selected Press
2012 | Public Kitchen, Lead Artist Commission, Design Studio for Social Intervention Boston, MA
Haven Independent - Kitchen Sync Ep. 100 | Nadine Nelson and Kitchen Wellness Wednesdays
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New Haven Arts Paper - “Our Bodies,” With Old And New Eyes https://bit.ly/2WRvMER New Haven Independent - Ely Exhibit Revisits “Our Bodies, Ourselves” https://bit.ly/2Wje6xq Daily Nutmeg - Stirring Committee https://bit.ly/2JXhcFK New Haven Arts Paper - Master Cooks Stir the Pot https://bit.ly/2WOeM2m