
Lisa Morehouse reports on the People’s Kitchen, an Oakland-based pay-what-you-can restaurant that happens once a month. Using only fresh, organic produce, the People’s Kitchen tries to raise money to for various charity events and raise consciousness about food issues.
Photo courtesy of The People’s Kitchen
Lisa Morehouse is an award-winning independent public radio and print journalist, who’s filed for KQED’s The California Report, NPR’s Latino USA and All Things Considered, Edutopia magazine and McSweeney’s. Her reporting has taken her from Samoan traveling circuses to Mississippi Delta classrooms to the homes of Lao refugees in rural Iowa. She’s currently working on After The Gold Rush: The Future of Rural California, an audio documentary website and series. A former public school teacher, Morehouse also works with at-risk youth to produce radio diaries.