Kirsten Kirby-Shoote

Kirsten Kirby-Shoote is a Tlingit food activist, chef and urban farmer originally from Portland, Ore. In 2015, they moved to Detroit in order to explore tangible Indigenous food sovereignty and how ancestral practices can benefit future people and place. Kirsten is dedicated to providing the community with access to traditional foods/medicines. Their agricultural project, ~Leilú~ aims to cultivate relationships with our plant relatives to help heal ancestral trauma. They also host pop-up dinners around Detroit to raise awareness of the local Indigenous food-movement and expose a wider audience to Native cuisine.