Karlos Baca

Karlos Baca is an Indigenous foods activist and founder of Taste of Native Cuisine, an Indigenous food cooperative based out of the Southern Ute territory in southwestern Colorado. 

He focuses on pre-colonial Indigenous foodways, which includes cooking, seed saving, agriculture and foraging. He spends most of his time teaching in schools, working to help decolonize food systems, and pushing for more Indigenous food sovereignty initiatives on a tribal level. He’s a member of the I-Collective, a group of Indigenous chefs, activists, herbalists and seed and knowledge keepers. Karlos is Tewa, Diné and Nuche.