Jen Faigel

Greater Boston Area United States

Executive Director at CommonWealth Kitchen

I am a passionate advocate and activist for community economic development work that leads to asset building, wealth creation, and meaningful investment in low-income communities. I currently lead the amazing team at CommonWealth Kitchen, Boston's only non-profit food business incubator and food manufacturing social enterprise. We provide kitchen space and business support to support to 50+ entrepreneurs in our fully-equipped kitchen facilities-- 70% of which are owned by women and/or people of color, employing over 125 local residents. Our small-batch contract manufacturing social enterprise provides recipe development, production, and value-added processing for 25+ wholesalers, re...