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Karla Tatiana Vasquez is a James Beard Award–nominated food writer and recipe developer based in Los Angeles. She is the creator of Un Poco de Relajo , a newsletter blending food history, cultural reflections, recipes, and community. Her work has been published in The Los Angeles Times , San Francisco Chronicle , and Teen Vogue , and her recipes have appeared in Food & Wine , Serious Eats , BuzzFeed Tasty, and Tastemade. Karla is also the executive producer of the original docuseries Salvi Los Angeles , which explores Salvadoran culture, food, and community in Los Angeles. Karla is also a food justice advocate and an active member in her community to increase healthy food accessibility in low-income communities, previously working with Hunger Action Los Angeles and Los Angeles Food Policy Council. She founded SalviSoul to preserve her family’s recipes, and since then it’s expanded to focus on cultural memory and intergenerational healing for the Salvadoran diaspora.