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Sean Sherman Highlight
If we band together, especially as people of color, we can be so much stronger in making these systems really work and happen.
About Sean
- I grew up in South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
- I started working in restaurants when I was 13 years old.
- After graduating college, I moved to Minnesota with intentions of going to art school, but quickly realized that art school was out of reach financially for me.
- I continued to work in restaurants and was able to work my way up into a chef position.
- As a chef, I worked in many different styles of food, including Spanish, Italian, French, and Japanese restaurants.
- A few years into my career as a chef, I realized the complete lack of Indigenous presence in the restaurant industry.
- I’ve since made it my mission to build awareness and revitalize Indigenous food systems.
- In that vein, I founded North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems, a nonprofit focused on re-establishing Native foodways to address the economic and health crises affecting our communities.
