Living With Purpose At Any Age, 2pm Resort
Whether you’re navigating a transition, searching for purpose, or simply curious where passion can lead you, her story is a reminder: it’s never too late to begin again.
Grace Young is an award-winning cookbook author, culinary historian, and filmmaker. She is a 2023 Forbes 50 Over 50 honoree, and is the recipient of the Julia Child Award , the James Beard Foundation’s Humanitarian of the Year Award and is a USA Today Women of the Year honoree for her work to save America’s Chinatowns. Dubbed the “accidental voice for Chinatown” by Grub Street, Grace’s advocacy for Chinatown and AAPI mom and pop businesses has been profiled on CBS Mornings, All Things Considered, PBS Newshour, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian and Vogue. She has been a fierce advocate for Chinatown, never more so than in her video series Coronavirus: Chinatown Stories, produced in collaboration with videographer Dan Ahn and Poster House Museum. The series documents the toll of the pandemic on New York City’s Chinese community.
Grace is a three-time James Beard Award-winner and a six-time IACP Award-winner including the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award. She is currently partnering with the James Beard Foundation on the #SupportChinatowns social media campaign. The goal of the campaign is to raise public awareness to support America’s Chinatowns today so they will exist for others to enjoy tomorrow.
In 2022, Grace was honored as one of EatingWell’s American Food Heroes; she received the Chinese American Museum DC Gold Lantern Award and Welcome to Chinatown's Chinatown Champion Award for her work to save America’s Chinatowns amid anti-Asian hate during the pandemic. Her efforts have been chronicled in the media including CNN, BBC radio, AARP, The Splendid Table, The New York Times, America’s Test Kitchen, Food & Wine, Condé Nast Traveler, KCRW’s Good Food, Swiss National Public Radio, Today.com, Buzzfeed News, The Boston Globe, New York Magazine, The World PRI, Cherry Bombe radio podcast, Edible Manhattan, Self, Eater, Serious Eats, Thrillist, Condé Nast Traveler Spain, WNYC’s All of it with Alison Stewart, The Brian Lehrer Show, Ed Levine’s Special Sauce podcast, HuffingtonPost EatingWell, theKitchn, Well + Good, The Post and Courier, ABC’s Localish, and she was included in Good Morning America's Inspiration List: Who’s Making AAPI History in 2021.
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