Grace Young

An award-winning cookbook author, culinary historian, and filmmaker, Grace has been a fierce advocate for Chinatown, never more so than in her video series Coronavirus: Chinatown Stories. The series has been shown at the Smithsonian and was nominated for an IACP digital media award. In 2020 she partnered with the James Beard Foundation on an Instagram campaign to #savechineserestaurants. Building on that campaign she is now partnering with the James Beard Foundation and Poster House museum on the #LoveAAPI social media campaign to fight anti-Asian hate. In 2022, Grace has been recognized as Humanitarian of the Year by the James Beard Foundation for her work to save America’s Chinatowns amid AAPI hate during the pandemic.