SANDE YOUTH PROJECT

The SANDE Youth Project is a 501c3 organization founded in 2008 by Toni Tipton-Martin to increase wellness by celebrating cultural heritage, community role models, and ancestral recipes. As part of its mission and efforts around community building, the SANDE Youth Project has partnered with numerous organizations to present innovative events such as after-school cooking programs, networking opportunities for youth food professionals, an annual healthy food festival for families, and the first symposium dedicated to African American foodways... We aim to create a network of thinkers, writers, and editors who question existing paradigms and values, and who support one another in our individual work to write authentically and have our work reach its full audience... To awaken women writers to the ways we have been and continue to be silenced in the creative and professional work space, including the internalized ways we have silenced ourselves.