What do Ouita Michel, Nelson Mandela, and food have in common? In this first installment of the Nelson Mendela Lecture Series, Ouita Michel, local chef and restaurant owner, speaks about her own commitment to building community. In this lecture, Ouita Michel and Melynda Price, Director of the African American and Africana Studies program, discuss Michel’s efforts to maintain cultural identity, the importance of names, and the values of diversity.

This podcast was produced by Casey Hibbard. 

Sustaining Good Community: A Conversation with Ouita Michel - The Nelson Mandela Lecture Series by UK College of Arts & Sciences is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.