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City Awake: Lunches on Leadership ft. Douglass Williams, MIDA

December 3, 2019 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Darryl’s Corner Bar & Kitchen

Event Details

  • Douglass Williams joins us to tell us about what it takes to not only be a chef, but also an entrepreneur and business owner in the City of Boston..

Tickets

  • Members & Non-Members: $20
  • RSVP by Tuesday, December 3
  • City Awake programs are open to young professionals between the ages of 21 – 39.
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Douglass Williams joins us to tell us about what it takes to not only be a chef, but also an entrepreneur and business owner in the City of Boston..

Douglass Williams, born and raised in New Jersey, was destined for the hospitality industry, as he started cooking at just four years old. Douglas’ interest in wellness was a pipeline to his passion for clean foods and whole produce, and eventually led to his career as a chef at different Michelin-starred restaurants. As if that wasn’t impressive enough, Douglas took the leap and opened up his own restaurant, MIDA, in Boston’s South End.

In our December Lunches on Leadership, Douglass will tell us about what it takes to not only be a chef, but also an entrepreneur and business owner.

To see who else will be attending, click here. 

What are our Lunches on Leadership?

Lunches on Leadership are an opportunity for you to get in the room and break bread with some of Boston’s most influential. Roughly 30 of us will gather together to hear a few lessons from someone with a compelling background and an exciting future. More importantly, you’ll get a chance to really get to know these speakers with dedicated time for your Q&A. 

Hannah Zinn

Senior Program Manager

[email protected]
617-557-7317

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Douglass Williams

Chef & Owner, MIDA Featured Speaker

About Chef Douglass Williams Douglass Williams is the chef/owner of MIDA restaurant in Boston’s South End neighborhood. Trained in modern French techniques, he earned…Read more
About Chef Douglass Williams Douglass Williams is the chef/owner of MIDA restaurant in Boston’s South End neighborhood. Trained in modern French techniques, he earned his culinary arts degree in New Jersey in 2004 and began his career in Atlantic City where he grew up. Since then he has spent his entire career working and staging at some of the best restaurants in the country. His 17 years of global culinary experiences in world-class restaurants such as Radius and Coppa in Boston, 2- Michelin starred Corton in NYC and Akrame in Paris and some time cooking in Thailand helped him build his foundation for matching rich flavors with warm hospitality and generosity and sparked his insatiable curiosity of people and food. Douglass lives in Jamaica Plain with his wife Debra and twin toddler boys, Raffa and Lev. About MIDA Restaurant: MIDA is a South End neighborhood restaurant in Boston, inspired by the simplicity of classic Italian culinary traditions. We believe in being generous and thoughtful in the way we prepare our food and engage with our community. And like you, we know the value of a good meal shared between friends. MIDA. It means “he gives me.” And every meal we create is meant to be a gift just for you. We’re looking forward to seeing you soon. MIDABoston.com, 617-936-3490, 782 Tremont St, Boston

Lanna Tokuhiro

Associate Director, Brand Strategy at Arnold Worldwide Moderator

Lanna is part brand strategist, part dog mom, part eating enthusiast, who has called Boston home for 5 years (9 if you include school). As a longtime Boston resident…Read more
Lanna is part brand strategist, part dog mom, part eating enthusiast, who has called Boston home for 5 years (9 if you include school). As a longtime Boston resident – upholding the trend of boomeranging back to Boston after one year away post-graduation from Emerson College – she’s passionate about understanding what’s happening in the community and the most pressing issues we face today, and connecting with people who offer a different perspective of the city. City Awake has been an amazing platform to do just that. As an Associate Director of Brand Strategy at Arnold, Lanna is passionate about building brands through an understanding of people and culture. From insurance, to food, to travel, she has helped companies put people – how they live, perceive, behave – at the center of business decisions, to not only drive storytelling and marketing behaviors in the outside world but also to affect organizational change from the inside. As an avid dog mom, she of course loves her pup – Lyla – but also loves that it’s become an easy way to strike up conversation with people on the street you would otherwise pass by without acknowledgment. She goes for walks on the beach every morning with Lyla (ahem, except for summer restricted days of course), where she’s met both the relatively new, young foothold of Southie as well as the residents who have grown up and lived there for 40+ years. As a food lover, she knows it sounds really cliché. It is, most people love food. But beyond the eating, she loves that cooking, trying new dishes, and using cuisine to dictate new vacation destinations, offers up the most delicious form of getting to know peoples’ stories and cultures. And she’s hopeful that Boston will continue to grow in this sector.

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