Culinary Experts
Chef Nilka Hendricks
- Featured on Hell’s Kitchen, season 7
- Owner of Chef’in It Up Catering
- Head Chef at Earth Tonez vegan café in Brooklyn
- Attended the Culinary Academy of Long Island
Chef Padua Player
- Featured on Food Network’s Holiday Baking Championship and Sweet Genius
- Desserts praised by President Biden
- Owner of SugaChef Desserts
- Competed on Food Network’s Chopped Sweets with judge Sylvia Weinstock
- Executive Pastry Chef at the Potomac Hospitality Group
- Appeared on WE TV’s Platinum Weddings and Cooking Channel’s Cake Hunters
- Won 2013 Capital Food Fight’s High Stakes Cake Battle hosted by Duff Goldman
- Volunteers with DC Central Kitchen training unemployed adults in culinary careers
Executive
Nicholaus Nelson-Goedert, PhD
- Founder of the Halloween Council
- Sociologist
- Founder of Sociology Inc
- Doctorate in sociology from Emory University