Carolina Saavedra

Carolina Saavedra is the Community Education Manager at Stone Barns Center, Sous Chef at La Morada Restaurant, and Garden Steward at the Bruckner Mott Haven Community Garden. She once considered a career in medicine but left her pre-med studies to pursue her calling and passion for feeding people and preserving food traditions. She moved to San Miguel Ahuehuetitlan, municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico to immerse herself in her indigenous roots and learn her ancestor’s recipes. Upon her arrival back in the United States Carolina continued to build her culinary career, competing on Food Network’s Chopped, graduating from the International Culinary Center with honors, and securing a competitive culinary internship at Martha and Marley Spoon. Chef Carolina has represented the U.S. at multiple gastronomy events in Mexico, and she is a sought-after chef who has taught at leading cultural institutions including The Bronx Botanical Garden, The Brooklyn Museum, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2021 Carolina Saavedra was named one of NYC Time Out’s Women of the Year. Carolina Saavedra strongly advocates everyday to ensure equality, environmental justice, social justice, food justice and to preserve their indigenous roots within the community of the South Bronx.