"Hosted the program’s first pop-up dinner, called Momentum Rising, in June. The invite-only event was led by 10 interns from the program alongside the restaurant team, who mentored the young men. Budding chef Jassan — one of the participants — made fried eel that night and recalls, “At first, I was kinda nervous. I didn’t want to knock anything over. I never did anything like that before. We were all helping each other in the kitchen. If someone didn’t know how to do something someone would come in and help. We were like, ‘let’s get this done.’”" - Henna Bakshi