Neftalí Duran

Neftalí Duran is a community cook, advocate, educator, and organizer, working towards an equitable food system and building a network of Indigenous food leaders. He is the co-founder of the I-Collective, an Indigenous collective that promotes a healthy food system that values people, traditional knowledge, and the planet over profit; as well as the Holyoke Food and Equity Collective, a local group of volunteers working toward food access in Holyoke, where he presently resides. His writing and culinary projects have been featured at the Smithsonian Native American museum, the Smithsonian museum of American history, the Native American Culinary Association, LongHouse Food Revival, Food52, Food and Wine Magazine, the Cooking Channel, and he has been a featured speaker at The Moth mainstage, Harvard, Smith College and more. Neftalí’s work is grounded in the belief that access to food is a human right.