The Team

Stacey Zembrzycki is a feminist oral and public historian who teaches in the History Department at Dawson College in Montreal, Canada. She isn’t a huge fan of cooking but loves to preserve, like her Baba, squirrelling away all the best that summers have to offer for leaner months.

Growing up around crowded tables and with a deep appreciation for snacking, Cassandra Marsillo is an oral and public historian who has been accused (multiple times) of only having food-related childhood memories. She teaches history at Dawson College in Montreal and works on her art when time permits.

Margo Shea learned her way around the kitchen with parents who loved to cook together and she treasures their well-loved, duct-taped copies of Joy of Cooking and Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She teaches public history at Salem State University and believes in the power of cooking and sharing food.

Erin Jessee is a feminist oral historian and genocide scholar who works at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She grew up surrounded by the lovely orchards and vineyards in British Columbia's Okanagan valley, and blames this for her love of cooking and baking and eating and feeding the people around her.

Although Kate's pandemic pantry stock includes saffron-laced raclette and locally-fermented curry kimchi, her palette is lovingly rooted in the Little Debbie snacks and Ellios pizzas of her past. In non-crisis times, she works as a public and community historian for the City of Holyoke, using place-based history, art, and the power of story to enrich the lives and inspire the futures of her constituents.