Examples:

When it comes to curating a menu for a bar, event or fest, this is a chance to offer an outlet for those underrepresented and uplift local craft beverage makers. Not only are you offering consumers a unique and more personal experience that they don’t typically get from a major corporate brand but it’s a chance to show your values and that you’re part of the community.

Examples of work include collaborating with bars to spotlight woman-brewed beers and distilled spirits, and curating a full beverage menu (non-alcoholic, wine and beer) for an ongoing music and art series; and moderating and coordinating panel discussions featuring creators.

Whether you’re a bar or brewery without a kitchen setup and looking to offer a space for a local food pop-up or chef, or you’re producing a concert in the park or a beer festival, here’s a chance to create an opportunity and build a relationship with a food pop-up and/or chef.

One example of my work reflecting the above was an ongoing collaboration with a woman-owned vegan pop-up that created a special meal for corporate volunteer events at a nonprofit farm. The chef spotlighted produce from the farm and shared additional local resources to create a farm-to-table immersive experience.

Trying to get your message out there into the world or are you a creator without access to a production facility? Team up with a brewery or other beverage production facility to launch your product.

A few examples of beverage partnerships include:

• Brave Noise Global Beer Collaboration for a Safe & Discrimination Free Beer Industry - 300 breweries have joined the collaboration. BraveNoiseBeer.com

• Homebrewer and digital creator Sarah Flora of Flora Brewing releases Brewbound herefive commercial beers with incubator brewery Pilot Project Brewing in Illinois and Milwaukee. Read the announcement on Brewbound here.

• Pink Boots Society collaborates with 101 Cider for the annual PBS Brew Collab and releases a cider fundraising for the nonprofit and spotlighting women in the alcohol industry.

Over my career, I’ve held various roles from booking food trucks for concerts, festivals and breweries. I led PR for the first-ever food truck festival in Orange County, CA, which had over 8,000 attendees. Following that I produced the first-ever food truck festival in Inland Empire, CA, which had over 10K attendees. And following that I produced and organized the first-ever food fun run featuring food trucks in Orange County, which was featured on an episode of Man vs Food on the Travel Channel. Funny enough, I think my experience working with food trucks helped land my first marketing agency job in the music industry. Paring independent food vendors with events has always been a passion of mine.