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Earlene Cruz
Earlene Cruz is the founder and executive director of Kitchen Connection Alliance (KCA), a non-profit organization devoted to educating global citizens on the promotion and development of a better food system.

She is also a Servas Youth Representative and Steering Committee Member to the United Nations Department of Public Information, an adjunct professor at the NYU School of Global Public Health, and serves on the board of several educational and nonprofit organizations.

She has been engaged in public debate on issues like food insecurity and climate change and is focused on transforming the global food system through education.

Early life and education
Earlene Cruz was born in New Jersey, United States to a family of restaurateurs.

Cruz graduated from Seton Hall University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Management & International Business. She then enrolled in the Institute for Shipboard Education where her experiences abroad redirected her plans to pursue law school in favour of a career in food sustainability and cultural exchange. She went on to obtain a Master’s degree in Social Entrepreneurship and Food Studies from New York University. During her time at university, she worked under the direction of Dr. Jennifer Berg to develop research and projects that address the power of food to unite people.

Kitchen Connection Alliance
In 2012, Earlene Cruz founded the Kitchen Connection Alliance with the goal of promoting food education and sustainability.

The Kitchen Connection Alliance works with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the UN Department of Global Communications. The organization also has the mission to educate the next generation of leaders—children and youth—on becoming advocates and changemakers for priority issues on the UN agenda.

Publications

 * Jaumont, Fabrice. The Bilingual Revolution: The Future of Education is in Two Languages. United States, TBR Books, 2017.
 * Long, Lucy M. Ethnic American Food Today: A Cultural Encyclopedia. United States, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015.
 * The Cookbook in Support of the United Nations: for People and Planet. United States, Familius LLC, 2022.