​Ethan Frisch, MSc
Board Member, Restaurant After Hours⁣
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Co-Founder, Burlap & Barrel Single Origin Spices⁣
Co-Host, Why Food? On Heritage Radio Network⁣
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Ethan is a native New Yorker, entrepreneur and activist around issues of intercultural communication, food systems, and social justice. Ethan has spent significant time in the kitchen as a line cook and pastry chef in New York and London, and as the chef behind Guerilla Ice Cream, an activist ice cream cart that he co-founded. As a humanitarian aid worker, he worked with NGO's including the Aga Khan Foundation in Afghanistan and Doctors without Borders on the Syrian/Jordanian border.⁣
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He has been an adjunct lecturer at the City College of New York and an instructor with the Experiment in International Living's Leadership Institute. He is honored to serve on the Board of Directors of the Bond Street Theatre, which uses theater to teach conflict resolution and resilience in areas of instability around the world, and Restaurant After Hours, addressing mental health crisis in the restaurant industry, and on the Advisory Boards of the student-led racial literacy and justice organization CHOOSE and Fragments Theatre, a youth theatre company in Palestine. He is also on the Organizing Committee of the Queens International Night Market.⁣
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Ethan holds a dual Bachelors Degree in Conflict Studies and Education and Social Change from the City of New York, and a Master's Degree in Violence, Conflict, and Development from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.⁣