Featuring keynote speaker: Paula Madison. Paula is a retired NBC executive, who wrote a book and made a documentary about her search for her Hakka Chinese grandfather's family. She is of Jamaican Black and Chinese ancestry, and grew up in Harlem. View the trailer of her moving story, Finding Samuel Lowe.

This year's gala will be held at the historic Far East Cafe in the heart of San Francisco Chinatown. 

Friend of Roots alumni at Eat Root Love 2016. Photo credit: Frank Jang