Cooking & Nutrition

Together with our

professional guest chefs
the younger kids will
learn easy to make after
school snacks, help
with basic food prep
while older kids will
learn kitchen &
cooking skills.
Chefs Include:
•Chef Catina Smith of
Just Call ME Chef
•The Maryland Food
Bank's Chef Manny
•University of MD
Expanded Nutrition
Education Program
(EFNEP)
•Monica E. Lapenta,
founder, Be a Chef
for a Day
•Isabel Betancourt,
MS, RDN, LDN,
Community Dietitian,
Moveable Feast
•Jasina Wise,
Baltimore Health
Department
•Chef Bryce Taylor,
Teen Chef, “Chopped
Junior” Finalist
•Blackwall Hitch's
Chef Mente & Chef
Palmer
•Atlas Restaurant
Group Chefs
•BRIO Tuscan Grille's
Chef Jeff
•Chefs from Local
 Food Distributors &
Brokers
Restaurant
Development
Under the leadership of
our own restaurant
owner, the kids will
train and develop their
own monthly
restaurant. They will
learn recipes and
restaurant jobs from
cook, waiter, bus
person, runner, to host.
The youth will also
name the restaurant,
design the logo &
menu. At the end of the
month, the kids will
open their restaurant &
feed the community.
Instructors:
• Kosmas "Tommie"
Koukoulis,
Restaurateur, Café
Mezzanotte, Capiche
Street Food Italiano
& Uncle’s Hawaiian
Grindz
• Michelle Suazo,
 Creative Director of
IndigoPark Design &
Technology

#BeMoreGreen Urban
Farming, Yoga &
Nutrition
STREAM programing
around urban farming
methods including
microgreens with the
City Hydro system. The
abundant laboratory
that surrounds us
provides the perfect
opportunity to teach the
youthful minds in our
neighborhoods the
fundamentals of
entrepreneurship and
sustainable living
through the process of
growing and selling
vegetables in the
microgreen climate or
classroom environment.
Also included in the
BeMoreGreen
programming is yoga,
nutrition and
mindfulness.
Instructor:
• Dominic Nell, Urban
Farmer, Owner of
#CityWeeds, Director
of #BeMoreGreen,
Red Bull Amaphiko
Fellow.
• Alex Ambridge, Yogi,
Bridger of Gaps
Healthy Literacy
What Lies Beneath? is
a series of workshops
that camouflage
academic and social
emotional gains within
recreational project
based activities.
Ultimately building
upon our core values
where we serve the
kids, community and in
turn the kids serve the
community.
Instructor:
• Shaquan Rivers, So
What Else
“Table Talks”
Mentorship
Mentors will guide
topics around the
dinner table that
include healthy
relationships, setting
boundaries in
relationships, asking for
help, coping with
triggers, self-nurturing,
red and green flags,
understanding recovery,
compassion, nutrition,
and public health. The
kids might be separated
into groups by sex or
age depending on the
topics. Each mentor
will have a different set
of curriculum to help
mix it up, but each will
have multiple topics
that will be chosen to
meet the needs of the
population and can
creatively facilitated
over the course of 8
weeks.
Mentors Include:
• Jerel Wilson, For My
Kidz, Founder
• Nina Martin, Ph-D,
 Executive Officer,
Science
Communicator,
Public Health United
•Jason Duncan, Self
Mastery
• Knicole Taylor, Co-
Founder & Director,
Empowering Minds
of Maryland
 •Henry Pertman,
Hospitality
Food Production
Ages 14-23 will learn
how to produce, brand,
market & sell
SeedyNutty a healthy
snack sold in store.
They will learn food
safety procedures.
Together we will create
jobs and a sense of
pride for SW
Baltimore.
Trainer & Mentor:
• Michelle Suazo,
Executive Director of
The Food Project and
Creative Director of
IndigoPark Design &
 Technology Clients
include Goodie Girl
Cookies, a national
brand.
Healthy Voice
Youth learn how to
express themselves
through filmmaking
and the visual arts.
Creative projects will
include creating stories
& documentaries
around health & food
themes. We have added
a Drum Circle program
to teach the youth not
only music-related
skills but also team
work, listening,
discipline, and self-
confidence. In addition
the youth will have a
sound studio to "cook
up some beats" and
express themselves
through music.
Instructors Include:
• Michelle Suazo,
Creative Director of
IndigoPark Design &
 Technology
• Vonnya Pettigrew,
Executive Director,
Root Branch Films
• Dr. Nina Martin,
Public Health United,
Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of
Public Health
•Adruma Victoria,
Percussionist