Introducing The People, a new weekly series highlighting those who have emerged as central figures in the anti-racism and BLM movements. This week, senior digital editor maxinewally spoke to Sophia Roe.
, a Black man killed by a white former Minneapolis police officer, has become a global racial reckoning. No industry or corner of culture has been untouched by this essential push for change—and there’s still so much more to do. In this series, we'll speak with those who are at the forefront of this shift, redefining what it means to be an activist, and the folks transforming their platforms to disseminate information and resources on the way forward.
This week, we're speaking with the chef Sophia Roe, who's worked in some of the most haute kitchens around the world, including Eleven Madison Park in New York City. Since then, she's become a wellness influencer in her own right, with an enormous following on Instagram and a stable of brands eager to partner with her.
I was on Instagram before we got on the phone, and I listened to some of your Live conversation there about white privilege. I'm just curious what prompted you to have that talk. Typically, I go Live five days a week. Sometimes I do a little bit more storytelling; sometimes it's a little bit more educational. Other times, it's really just like, I'm going to talk to you about the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Today, I was supposed to talk about gentrification. A Black woman reached out to me and said,"Soph, I think you should probably have a conversation about whiteness and about accountability, and education beforehand.
Part of my job is absolutely educating people on food access and food inequity, and in my opinion these are the same conversation. You can't have a conversation about food apartheid and not also have a conversation about gentrification and white supremacy. They're all the same conversation in some way—there's a lot of intersection there.
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