Ikimi Dubose-Woodson has come a long way in her career since polishing silverware at 15. But the 41-year-old wouldn’t be where she is now — and as devoted as she is to community service — were it not for that lowly gig at the New York Marriott World Trade Center back in 1997.
Another career pivot was in store in 2020 when Dubose-Woodson decided to build her own consulting firm, which thrived in the early pandemic by teaching fine-dining establishments how to become sustainable food delivery operations. Simultaneously, Dubose-Woodson was attending Georgetown’s, working through the nonprofit executive certificate program, when she decided it was time “to give all my energy to helping others” in the food and beverage industry.“When Carlton McCoy Jr.
Unfortunately, Dubose-Woodson knows the lack of diversity in the food and beverage industry firsthand. Giving back to the New York City community is especially important to the Brooklyn native. New York is a food and wine mecca, a “perfect market,” complete with countless wine and spirits events and endless connections.in the West Village, is an alum — or “vintage scholar” as they are known — of the Roots Fund, and is paying that generosity forward by being a wine educator for the nonprofit.