Housing and Development Newsletter
Since serving nearly 4 million meals to the people of Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria, WCK has responded to dozens of disasters worldwide and distributed tens of millions of meals in the process.
A naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Spain, Andrés is an advocate for immigration reform and on July 4, 2014 was named by President Barack Obama as that year’s Outstanding American by Choice. In 2015, President Obama awarded Andrés the National Humanities Medal “for cultivating our palettes and shaping our culture.”
“We [chefs] feed the few, but we have the opportunity to change the world,” Andrés responded to the honor.