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Trish is FareStart’s first graduate of both the on-site adult training program and the virtual training program, the latter of which began as a response to the pandemic.

Trish began the Adult Culinary Program hoping to gain many of the tools the program had to offer. She had recently moved from Oklahoma, where she had experienced

Dear FareStart Community,

From navigating a global pandemic to the continued fight for racial justice, this past year has been

Written by Tara Vallimont, Youth Barista Program Supervisor and Erika Van Merr, Associate Director of Philanthropy, Corporations & Foundations.

FareStart honors young people who have been instrumental in shaping Black history around the time of the Civil Rights Movement and will be making history moving forward. Youth and young adults were drawn to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, some engaging as very young children. They continue to be a bold

Black or African American history is American history. Black history, poetry, art, culture, activism, music, radical ideas, and achievements have been suppressed, distorted and erased for centuries due to constant and pernicious racism and white supremacy in the US. By actively investing in learning, celebrating, and lifting up African American voices and history at FareStart, we challenge anti-blackness and begin to become an organization based in our values of diversity, equity, inclusion