Indigenous Voices: Sara Calvosa Olson and Crystal Wahpepah in Conversation

Part of Indigenous Voices
Sponsored by Telegraph Hill Arts and Literature
Co-presented with Heyday an independent, nonprofit publisher founded in 1974 in Berkeley, California.

Join us as we continue our Native American Heritage Month series, welcoming Sara Calvosa Olson and Crystal Wahpepah to share their latest works — Chími Nu'am and A Feather and a Fork.

Free to attend — RSVP required to reserve your seat.

Speakers

Sara Calvosa Olson (Karuk) is a food writer and editor living in the Bay Area with her husband and two teenage sons. Her work dwells at the intersection of storytelling, Indigenous food systems, security, sovereignty, reconnection, and recipe development. Her writing has appeared in News from Native California and Edible Shasta-Butte. Visit her website at akihsara.com, and follow her on Instagram at @thefrybreadriot.

Chef Crystal Wahpepah, a registered member of the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma, has long been a warrior for Indigenous food sovereignty. She is the creative tour de force behind the inventive, healthy, and delicious dishes served at her restaurant, Wahpepah’s Kitchen, in Oakland, California—the first Native woman-owned restaurant in Northern California.

If Crystal is not at her Oakland, California restaurant, Wahpepah’s Kitchen, she is on the road, talking about Native American foodways, advocating for Indigenous food sovereignty, and celebrating the launch of her debut cookbook, “A Feather and a Fork.” 

📍 Location Telegraph Hill Books 1501 Grant Avenue, San Francisco