About the Chef: Kia Damon was named one of The New York Times’s 16 Black Chefs Changing America. Sis a self-taught chef and proud Floridan woman. While paving her way through kitchens, she launched The Supper Club From Nowhere as a response to the lack of visible Black women in her culinary community. She soon became known as Kia Cooks as she spent her time doing pop up dinners, private cooking and cooking demos. After moving to New York , she took over as an Executive Chef of Lalito in Manhattan at 24 years old. Soon after, she became Cherry Bombe Magazine’s first Culinary Director. Her approach to food is influenced by her personal exploration into her roots and her desire to find the threads that tie cultures together. Kia has made appearances in Vogue, Grubstreet and Munchies.