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She also references Malinda Russell, the first Black American to publish a cookbook.

“Like Malinda Russell, I, too, am on a quest for freedom—to be freed from the confines of what is expected of me, cooking while Black in twenty-first-century America,” she wrote.

"This is a low-income area, people are not rich here, and people will exploit opportunities for income," explains Malinda Gardiner from Conservation South Africa.

For Malinda Cvitkovic in Ventura, the higher expectations of independence felt like a plus.

The plaintiffs included Karamo’s former co-chair, Malinda Pego and other former allies.