Gabrielle Eitienne is an artist and cultural preservationist who uses diasporic and local foodways as a vehicle to reimagine wealth, marginalized food systems, and inheritance. Her work uses oral history, film, cooking, and textile to examine and explore the Black experience in relation to land cultivation, sedentary practice, and agronomy, creating contemporary source materials for historic works and knowledge. Her work in creative storytelling and diasporic grain research with James Beard Award-winning Chef JJ Johnson reconnected her to her family’s roots in agriculture in North Carolina. She has since been featured in publications such as Saveur, The Kitchn, Crop Stories, and most recently on Whetstone magazine’s podcast Point of Origin and in the Netflix series High on the Hog, produced by Roger Ross Williams and Jessica B. Harris. She also co-founded the North Carolina-based Black farmer CSA, Tall Grass Food Box, a platform to support and encourage the sustainability of Black farmers by increasing their visibility and securing space for them in the local marketplace. (Apex, NC) @gabrielle_eitienne