27/04/2026
Meet 2026 Plate2Plate Resident Adrian Lipscombe 🌍🏛️👩🏾🍳
moves through the world where food, policy, and place meet. A chef, architect, city planner, and storyteller based in Austin, Texas, Adrian’s path has never been traditional, and that is exactly what makes her extraordinary.
From opening a restaurant in La Crosse, Wisconsin, rooted in community revival, to founding the .heritage and leading the 40 Acres Project, Adrian has spent her career securing land, uplifting African American and Indigenous foodways, and building spaces where food history and food futures belong to the people.
A former Culinary Diplomat to the White House and advisor to various national organizations, she brings a rare combination of policy fluency, cultural vision, and pitmaster fire to everything she does.
Adrian joins our second Plate2Plate cohort headed to Ghana this summer, where her lifelong commitment to land, memory, and food sovereignty will find new roots. We are honored to have her at the table.