Curriculum Vitae

Director, Programs and Scholarship
Project Threadways

Marketing and Editorial Manager
Southern Foodways Alliance

Marketing and Editorial Consultant
Terenzio LLC

Senior Manager, Restaurant Marketing
Content Marketing Manager
OpenTable, Inc.

Associate Content Manager
Assistant Content Manager
Williams-Sonoma, Inc.

University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
M.A., Southern Studies
Thesis Topic: “Feijoada and Hoppin’ John: Foodways, Collective Identity, and Belonging in Brazil and the American South”
Advisor: Dr. Catarina Passidomo
Coursework: Southern Studies; Foodways; Critical Race Scholarship; Cultural Sociology; Global South Studies; Cultural Anthropology

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Medill School of Journalism
B.S., Journalism; B.A., French; Concentration, Sociology
Semester in Paris, France

Textiles and Cotton; Food and Foodways; Global/U.S. South; Critical Race Studies; Human and Urban Geography; Placemaking; Branding and Narratives; Tourism; Socially Constructed Communities

Southern Foodways Alliance
Nathalie Dupree Graduate Fellow

“Feijoada and Hoppin’ John: Comparing Foodways of the African Diaspora in Brazil and the United States,” Southern Cultures, 25 (4): 156-173.

Chanin, Natalie, et al, ed. 2024. The Future of Textiles. Southern Cultures, 30, no. 3 (Winter 2024).

“A Comeback Story,” Gravy, ed. Sara Camp Milam, Spring 2025, www.southernfoodways.org/a-comeback-story/.

“At SFA’s Fall Symposium, the South Is a Process, Not a Product,” Bitter Southerner, ed. Chuck Reece, November 2018, bittersoutherner.com/from-the-southern-perspective/at-sfa-fall-symposium-the-south-is-a-process-not-a-product.

“Brazilian Coffee, For Brazilians,” ChefsFeed, ed. Cassandra Landry, July 2018, chefsfeed.com/stories/1005-brazilian-coffee-for-brazilians.

“Grapes in September, Olives in November,” TASTE, ed. Matt Rodbard, December 2017, tastecooking.com/grapes-september-olives-november/.

“This Is Why People in Sardinia Are Living Longer Than You,” ChefsFeed, ed. Cassandra Landry, September 2017, chefsfeed.com/stories/719-this-is-why-people-in-sardinia-are-living-longer-than-you.

Gravy. Edited by Olivia Terenzio and Sara Camp Milam. Podcast, audio, 2021-present. https://www.southernfoodways.org/gravy-format/gravy-podcast/

“2023-2026 Project Threadways Symposia.” Organized by Project Threadways. Symposium at The Factory, Florence, Alabama, 2023-2026.

“2025 Southern Foodways Symposium.” Organized by the Southern Foodways Alliance. Symposium at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, October 24, 2025.

“Rice, Beans, Greens, and Pig: Selling the Myth of Magical Foods from Brazil to the U.S. South,” Southern Foodways Alliance Graduate Student Conference: Food Studies Across Disciplines, Oxford, Mississippi, September 2018.

Paris Writing Workshop
Paris American Academy
Paris, France

Harvard ManageMentor
Harvard Business Review

Tante Marie’s Cooking School
Professional Culinary Certification
San Francisco, California