The group will come together for a conversation exploring the deep and intertwining relationships between memory, identity and authorship that exist for Black creatives who reference, make and keep place through their work. He has been a UNICEF ambassador since 2000, focusing his advocacy on water and sanitation issues, specifically the Tap Project. Sign up for our NEWSLETTERS and learn all about upcoming events and appearances.

The Harvard Graduate School of Design offers its Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture Series, which is open to the public, via Zoom. Samuelsson was also crowned champion of television shows Top Chef Masters and Chopped All Stars, and was the winning mentor on ABC’s The Taste. Golden was the recipient of the 2016 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence. "This is the toughest time we've gone through," he said. 504.6k Followers, 2,058 Following, 2,945 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Marcus Samuelsson (@marcuscooks) In 2009, Marcus was honored as a guest chef at the White House under the Obama Administration, where he planned and executed the administration’s first state dinner for the first family, Prime Minister Singh of India and 400 of their guests. He was the winner on Bravo’s Top Chef Masters Season Two and serves as a recurring judge for Chopped, one of Food Network’s highest rated series with a following of over 20 million viewers a month. MARCUS SAMUELSSON Marcus is also a co-founder of FoodRepublic.com – a website for men who want to eat and drink well, and to live smart. Growing up, my sisters Anna and Linda and I spent summers in Smögen, on the west coast of Sweden. Samuelsson was the youngest person to ever receive a three-star review from The New York Times and has won multiple James Beard Foundation Awards including Best Chef: New York City and Outstanding Personality for No Passport Required on PBS. The GSD is pleased to present a series of talks and webinars broadcast to our audiences via Zoom. Speaking of brands that chefs and home cooking amateurs alike can trust, Samuelsson mentioned that companies like King Oscar and Genova Premium Tuna were especially helpful during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic when convenience was key during a trip to the grocery store. "Something that is very familiar to one country can be very foreign to another — it's all about trusting the brand," he said of cooking with fish like mackerel and tuna. Toni is also Professor in Practice of Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and leads The Just City Lab, a research platform for developing values-based planning methodologies and tools, including the Just City Index and a framework of indicators and metrics for evaluating public life and urban justice in public plazas. She has received honorary degrees from Bard College, the City College of New York, Columbia University, and Smith College.

[You wanted] to be fast when you got to the store, [and] you have brands that translated to trust," he said. During his tenure as executive chef, he received an impressive three-star rating from the New York Times, the youngest person ever to receive such an accolade. Born in Ethiopia, he was orphaned early; both he and his sister were adopted and raised by parents in Sweden, where he learned to cook alongside his maternal grandmother and later attended culinary school.

It has earned two-stars from the New York Times and countless accolades for its food, style and connection to the community. Of Ethiopian and Swedish descent himself, Samuelson tells T+L, "You can have a Haitian background, an Ethiopian and Swedish background, or a Filipino background, and that's what makes this book so diverse and creates another level of diversity on top of it.