Thank you to everyone who attended our inaugural Opening Family Meal with Reem’s California at our FIRST POC Food & Wine Festival! A lot of FIRSTS for one day 🙂
We shared a truly amazing, connected dinner experience with 60 people celebrating, learning, and honoring Palestinian culture and food together. Read More
From day 1, our priority as a festival has been accessibility and sustainability. We’ve been working hard to achieve this goal, but the reality is that we don’t operate in a vacuum. Despite all our efforts, we are still living through a crazy time in our country – continued effects of the pandemic on our ever-changing habits and lifestyles, increasing layoffs in the tech sector and more, a tough job market, and an ongoing genocide being funded by our government all make day to day tough. Read More
My name is Gina Mariko Rosales and I’m the Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Make it Mariko – a San Francisco creative events agency led by women of color. Before starting my own agency, I was the Head of Marketing Events for X, the moonshot factory (fka Google X), did nonprofit event planning, and produced large scale dance events in the community. In 2017 I co-founded the biggest Filipino Creative Night Market in California called UNDISCOVERED SF to 10,000 people in San Francisco. Needless to say, I’ve had my fair share of festival/event planning.