Zella Palmer on Clubhouse

Bio

I teach and write about Black & Indigenous Food 🍽 Culture ⚜️Travel✈️ | Tap 👇🏾

📍New Orleans | Chicago | Cuba | Nigeria

Who am I❓

Scholar • Food Studies Professor • Author

Endowed Chair & Director • Dillard University Ray Charles Program in African-American Material Culture @dillard_raycharles 👩🏾‍🍳👨🏾‍🍳

Fun Facts: 🙌🏾

Ancestors:
I am the great granddaughter of Madam C.J. Walker’s 💁🏽‍♀️Personal Physician, Dr. Joseph H. Ward 👨🏽‍⚕️+ Zella Locklear 🐢(Lumbee Tribe of N.C.) & Alexander Elick + Alice Palmer (est. 1835 • New Orleans)

➕I speak Spanish fluently a lo Cubano 🇨🇺🗣

➕Former dancer 💃🏻and student @alvinailey

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💻Food & Culture Media
💰Non-Profit Fundraising
🤔Program & Curriculum Development
📚Book Publishing Advice
🌍Travel & Digital Nomad Tips (Lived Experiences • Canada 🇨🇦 | Cuba 🇨🇺 | Nigeria 🇳🇬 | México 🇲🇽 )
🍽 Virtual Event Planning (Curated | Nellie Murray Feast + Dinner en Bleu)
🤓Genealogical Research
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Accolades ⬇️✅

Published Cookbook: 📚Recipes & Remembrances of Fair Dillard: 1869-2019 • UL Press

Articles: ✍🏽 👩🏽‍🏫Essence Magazine • 64 Parishes • For the Culture • New Orleans Tricentennial Anthology

Documentary: 🎬 The Story of New Orleans Creole Cooking: The Black Hand in the Pot (YouTube)

Board Member: 👩🏽‍🏫📈@radicalxchange @beardfoundation James Beard Foundation Black & Indigenous Investment Fund

Awards 🏆

✅Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame, “Donald Harrison, Sr. Cultural Preservationist Award”, 2018
✅New Orleans Magazine, People to Watch, 2020
✅Louisiana Creole Research Association Founder Award 2020

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