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Podcast: Eating at a Meeting
Episode: Using Her Vegan Restaurant to Educate and Empower Others
Description: When I posted on my Instagram account that I was searching for women to highlight for Women's HERstory month, Chef Nina Curtis was the first to reply with the name Chef Karla Ortiz. Then, OMG! The additional "votes" for Karla kept rolling in, and then someone submitted a nomination form for her. After reading that, the piece about her in Forbes and on PBS's My American story, I was convinced. Karla Ortiz is the Chef/Owner of Bo.ka.do, a vegan restaurant in Puerto Rico, located inside La Plaza del Mercado (a farmer's market...