We were so proud to be named Brooklyn’s Hero of the Month for December. Our Culinary Director, Chef Alex Harris, accepted the award on behalf of the organization. Bklyner covered the event.

We’re grateful to be featured in Bloomberg’s article on mission-driven restaurants, "Dine Out, Do Good.”

NYU’s Embodied Magazine finds a home and representation of true American ideals in Emma’s Torch!

The New York Times covers our graduate Dima as he prepares his first Thanksgiving feast!

amNY covers what makes Emma’s Torch unique from other restaurants and quotes our founder Kerry Brodie saying, "Food creates conversations and builds bridges between people.”

Rachael Ray Every Day Magazine visits our third cohort’s graduation ceremony and reports back!

Kerry Brodie (Princeton ‘12) talks to the Princeton Alumni Weekly about the story behind Emma’s Torch, sharing how “[i]t’s not just about getting in the door. It’s about getting into a career that works with their goals.”

Check out interviews with Chef Alex, Kerry, and one of our newest students in Reuters' video. Reporter Roselle Chen said herself to us: "I still can't believe a restaurant like yours hasn't existed in the past in NYC, and am so glad and grateful it exists now." 

We're on TIME Magazine's first annual list of the World’s Greatest Places, for which TIME solicited nominations across a variety of categories—such as museums, parks, bars, restaurants, theme parks, cruises and hotels—from our editors and correspondents around the world as well as dozens of industry experts. 

NYC-based food writer and Bon Appétit Associate Editor Hilary Cadigan sits down with Kerry and our lovely graduate from Vietnam, Thu Pham, to talk about the results of our program. Check it out below. 

Contributing Editor and cookbook author Tamar Adler saved the best for last on her national tour of refugee-focused restaurants in the U.S -- in Vogue's renowned September Issue, this year with Beyoncé glamorously starring on its cover!