Liberty's Kitchen: New Orleans

Liberty's Kitchen provided New Orleans youth with the skillset to achieve their vision of success through professional and personalized training. Their Youth Development Program was a 12-week paid job-training program for young people ages 16-24. They offered hands-on skill building in food service, career development, leadership, and transferable skills.

I photographed Liberty's Kitchen as part of the Momenta Workshop's Project NOLA. Despite being an important and long-standing non-profit in New Orleans, they announced a week after the workshop that they were closing their doors. The individuals photographed are the final two graduating cohorts of the program.