COOK Alliance
Jaredd V. Franco currently serves as a Program Manager at COOK Alliance, having joined the organization in April 2025. Franco previously contributed to DIY Girls as a STEM Instructor and worked at 9 Dots as a Computer Science Education Fellow and Communications Assistant, where responsibilities included instructing and mentoring K-6 students in computer science concepts. Earlier experience includes roles at Curative as a Site Specialist, Kopy King Printing as a Digital Marketing Specialist, and conducting community-engaged research with the UCLA Astin Community Scholars Program. Franco also supported first-generation college students as a UCLA Bruin Advisor and served as a Senior Student Supervisor with Associated Students UCLA. Social media coordination at Los Angeles Valley College helped increase awareness of resources for students. Educational credentials include a degree in Political Science from UCLA, an Associate of Arts from Los Angeles Valley College, and a high school diploma from Birmingham Community Charter High School.
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COOK Alliance
The COOK Alliance is the nonprofit helping to legitimize the existing informal home cooking industry and legalize the country’s first permitted sales of home cooked meals (now known as “Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operations - MEHKOs”). We led the charge to ratify the country’s first home cooking business law, AB 626, which passed in California in 2018 and are now continuing this work across the country. We envision a world in which home-based culinary entrepreneurs, particularly from historically underserved communities, have meaningful, low-barrier opportunities to earn dignified, livable incomes through their small businesses and expand access to fresh meals and deeper, resilient community connection. We are working to legalize home cooking businesses and empower culinary entrepreneurs to be fully informed, define their own success, and enrich their communities. We are committed to ensuring these opportunities are accessible to all, particularly underserved women, immigrants, and people of color.