La Cocina is a nonprofit working to solve problems of equity in business ownership for women, immigrants and people of color. We provide talented entrepreneurs with affordable commercial kitchen space, industry-specific mentorship, and access to market opportunities and capital. The result? A kitchen incubator that outperforms any Bay Area restaurant group with 50+ graduating businesses and 32 of these entrepreneurs in their own brick-and-mortar restaurants. Six businesses born out of La Cocina were named in San Francisco Chronicle's Top 100 Restaurants of 2019. Through our new book "We Are La Cocina" and our own storytelling platform, F&B: Voices from the Kitchen, we share the voices from the food industry that are less often heard. Next spring, La Cocina will open the nation's first women-led food hall in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. This 7,000 sq. ft. Municipal Marketplace will stand as an innovative model for anti-gentrification, conscious development, and private and public partnerships to alleviate poverty in inner cities nationwide.