Momo Chang
Momo Chang is a freelance journalist based in Oakland, CA. Her work focuses on telling cultural stories through the lens of healthcare, immigration, and food. She has written for the East Bay Express, SF Chronicle, KQED Bay Area Bites, and WIRED. She is a contributing editor for Hyphen magazine and is the Content Manager at the Center for Asian American Media.
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Kristyn Leach of Namu Farms shares tips, tricks and a step-by-step guide to growing your own perilla — a plant species in the mint family traditionally grown in the Korean peninsula, southern China, Japan and India as a crop. Edited by Momo Chang.
Namu Farms in Winters, California is one of several small farms cultivating Asian heritage vegetables. Farmer Kristyn Leach explains how they and other immigrant farms are keeping biodiversity, food and culture alive with seeds.
In South Sacramento, a group of mostly Southeast Asian American youth have been finding their voice through local civic engagement and advocacy.
An organization based out of a community health clinic in Oakland has pioneered the way for safer conditions for nail salon workers.
Since it opened in 2005, La Cocina has grown 35 food businesses. This incubator kitchen gives mostly women, immigrants, moms and refugees a chance to succeed as a food entrepreneur in a highly competitive and male-dominated industry.
The founders of mak’amham and Café Ohlone in the Bay Area want to bring back Indigenous ways and honor the ancestors who preserved traditions in the face of colonization.