https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/10/01/qa-with-chef-behind-oaklands-new-black-heritage-all-female-run-restaurant/

When it opens in the Temescal District of Oakland, Christina “Lala” Harrison’s first restaurant will be so much more than a place to eat. Roux40, located in the former Magpie digs, will serve treasured Black American dishes with a farm-to-table twist. It will be funded by Harrison and her community. And it will be built, designed and run entirely by Black women and women of color.

Harrison, who is 35 and grew up in Berkeley and Richmond, is best known for her pandemic-born Cajun-Cali catering and meal prep business, JusLaEats. But all of her work, including stints at Brown Sugar Kitchen and Flora, and the years she spent teaching at-risk young people of color through East Oakland’s YouthUprising, has led to building Roux40, a place where Black women and women of color can be leaders, she says.