2026 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit

Gabrielle is a Cultural Preservationist and Culinary Artist who uses Diasporic and local foodways as a vehicle to reimagine wealth, marginalized food systems, and inheritance. Her work uses oral history and intuitive cooking to engage audiences around rural food and land traditions.

Gabrielle’s recipes and storytelling have been published and featured in The New York Times, Vogue Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Southern Living Magazine, as well as the two James Beard-nominated anthologies, BLACK FOOD and FOR THE CULTURE. Her work was also featured in the Peabody Award-winning Netflix series "High on the Hog."

Gabrielle co-founded the North Carolina-based Black Farmer CSA, Tall Grass Food Box, an equity-focused platform created to support and encourage the sustainability of Black farmers. This work has been covered by NPR, Scalawag Magazine and The Nation.

Gabrielle has presented keynotes, served as a panelist, and hosted cooking demonstrations for respected institutions and conferences, including Spelman University, Slow Foods USA, The Black Farmers and Growers Conference, and the Culinary Institute of America. In 2018, Gabrielle returned to her family’s homeplace in Central North Carolina, where she is archiving her own familial foodways while restoring both her family home and her grandparent’s mechanic shop. This historic building is where Gabrielle will host her supper club, centering folklore and “rural imagination," as well as a special multidisciplinary artist’s atelier.

Gabrielle is represented by CAA (Creative Artists Agency).