Alexa Joan Wajed

Alexa Joan Wajed is co-founder and Chief Strategy and Operations Officer of Eat Off Art, a collaborative of artists, educators, and entrepreneurs working to build a more empathetic community.  She is a born entrepreneur, artist, trained chef, jewelry designer, and curator. Alexa received her bachelor's degree in Hospitality Management and an associate's in both Business Administration and Culinary Arts and has studied in Switzerland and Positano, Italy.

Alexa enjoys helping people understand and adopt healthy eating habits, mentoring the youth, and creating abstract art, along with unique, hand-painted jewelry, which is sold online and in a few local gift shops and galleries. She is regularly socially engaged through several non-profit organizations including her own, Cultrue, Inc. which is an art-based non-profit that makes art accessible as a healing practice for everyone. She is an associate trustee for the WNY Foundation and a 30-year member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated (Xi Epsilon Omega Chapter).

Bio courtesy of the artist.