Nazli Parvizi

President & Advisor

Museum of Food and Drink NYC, Cork Collective

Nazli is President of MOFAD, the Museum of Food and Drink in Brooklyn, where she leads a team using food to explore culture and history. Her passion for hospitality began at 14 in a Massachusetts tea shop and led her to study Food Anthropology at Columbia. She co-founded Night Kitchen Brooklyn and later became NYC’s youngest agency head under Mayor Bloomberg, leading NYC Service and the Community Affairs Unit. Today, she advises nonprofits on civic engagement and disaster recovery. She also serves as an advisor to the Cork Collective, a sustainability initiative repurposing wine corks into eco-friendly, community-focused design projects.

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What does innovation mean to you?

Innovation to me is simply bringing people from all walks of life together to collectively think of new solutions to old problems.

What do you believe is the most important capability for companies to thrive in the economy of tomorrow?

Despite all the rapid technilogical innovations happening in real time, the success of companies for today and tomorrow's economy still hinges, I believe, on the ability to connect with and understand their customers. The idea that AI can replace the human experience

How can we leverage our collective strength to create a more prosperous future?

I’m involved with an organization called the States Project, which helps friends create giving circles all over the country to support state legislative races in critical states. I bring this up because this project brings people together with shared values to solve a problem in a place they have no connection to — with the understanding that creating change in one corner of the country will positively impact the rest of the country. This too is the power of collective strength and the BOLD community - to identify a set of values (and projects and outcomes we want to see!) that unite us and to create a network around the world where these values can take hold and root.