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Culinary Arts

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Activist, Chef, Culinary Artist, Entrepreneur, Social Movement

Kurt Evans

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 1919-Present

Evans is a chef artist-activist and social entrepreneur in Philadelphia who uses his culinary skills to rally the community around ending mass incarceration. Through his EMI Dinner series, the series brings awareness to garnering solutions for ending mass incarceration.
Evans recently reestablished a workforce development program through Down North Pizza , a fair wage, equitable workplace for all its employees who have been formerly incarcerated.

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