Facebook and Dine Diaspora are proud to host Digital Diasporas, a series of private and public virtual gatherings aimed at understanding the African diaspora user experience on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and providing support to maximize their engagement on the platform. Whether it's connecting with relatives all over the world, or promoting diaspora businesses and organizations, or amplifying diaspora voices and ideas, Facebook recognizes the powerful social and economic impact diasporas are making through our platform.
This series on Food, Travel and Lifestyle Across the African Diaspora features creatives at the intersection of the food, travel and lifestyle industries who leverage digital technology to engage diverse audiences, drive value within their industries, and amplify how their cultural identities inform their craft.
September 15th, 2020 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Kwame Onwuachi shares winning strategies for social media and other technologies that he uses to showcase his culinary talent, connect with people and brands, and amplifies how his heritage informs his craft.
Biography:
Kwame Onwuachi is a James Beard Award-winning Chef, and author of “Notes from a Young Black Chef,” published by Alfred A. Knopf. He was born on Long Island and raised in New York City, Nigeria, and Louisiana. Onwuachi was first exposed to cooking by his mother, in the family’s modest Bronx apartment, and he took that spark of passion and turned it into a career. From toiling in the bowels of oil cleanup ships to working at some of the best restaurants in the world, he has seen and lived his fair share of diversity. Onwuachi trained at the Culinary Institute of America and has opened five restaurants before turning thirty; including the groundbreaking Afro-Caribbean restaurant, Kith/Kin. A former Top Chef contestant, he has been named one of Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs, Esquire Magazine’s 2019 Chef of the Year, and a 30 Under 30 honoree by both Zagat and Forbes.
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September 22nd, 2020 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Jessica Nabongo dives into how she leverages social media to build community, grow her brands, and change the narrative about travel across the African diaspora
Biography:
Jessica Nabongo, a Detroit-born Ugandan-American got her start with traveling when she was just four years old, and now the former United Nations employee has become the first black woman to travel to every country in the world.
Jessica is a cultural ambassador, travel writer, photographer and entrepreneur whose work is about changing the travel narrative and making the travel space more inclusive. She is the founder and CEO of Jet Black, a boutique luxury travel firm that specializes in tourism to countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and Central and South America; as well as The Catch, a lifestyle brand featuring goods acquired during her global adventures.
As an influencer, Jessica’s travels and expertise have been captured by national outlets such as Forbes, The Huffington Post, Fox 2 Detroit, Conde Nast Traveler, BBC News World Service, The New York Times, CBS News and more. In March 2019, she was named one of the 30 Most Powerful Women in Travel by Conde Nast Traveler.
This series on Food, Travel and Lifestyle Across the African Diaspora features creatives at the intersection of the food, travel and lifestyle industries who leverage digital technology to engage diverse audiences, drive value within their industries, and amplify how their cultural identities inform their craft.
