Love Hard: Mark Brand | GP Interview #11
This is the eleventh in a series of written interviews with thinkers, artists, activists and other luminaries around the world, people whose life’s work resonates with our founding principles.
Along with overseeing the 5 organizations under MB Inc, our friend Mark Brand leads his A Better Life Foundation in Canada, the United States and Mexico and is a Stanford fellow, Professor of Innovation and Design Thinking, and has served as executive chef for the American Refugee Committee and Pope Francis’s Climate Challenge. He also serves alongside the Future Food Institute in partnership with the United Nations FAO around global food security and poverty.
From business practice to event design, facilitation, teaching, and public stages, Mark speaks on the principles of radical inclusion and everyday advocacy. Balancing business and purpose in his cooking, systems design, teaching, and love for community, Mark believes that feeding people and re-thinking the ways we get it done will change the world in a way that is essential to our future.
GP: What bothers you most about how the world works?
MB: Let’s focus the lens of this interview where your people are, the US.
We refuse as a civilization to admit and make reparations and systemic changes in accordance with our deeply racist…
