About
Since 2016 Whetstone has used food as a means of better understanding humans and the world. To date we’ve worked with a team of global creatives representing over a 80 countries. We believe that diversity isn’t just noteworthy, it’s what makes our work so essential.
When the gatekeepers are diverse, so too are the stories, its tellers and their experiences. This diversity accelerates our collective knowledge and empathy. Whetstone is unequivocally and gratefully a better company because of it.
Our Team
Stephen Satterfield
Founder
Since 2007, Stephen Satterfield has spent his career redefining food and beverage as means of organizing, activating and educating. He is the founder of Whetstone, a groundbreaking magazine and media company dedicated to food origins and culture from around the world.
Prior to his career in media, Satterfield was a sommelier and social entrepreneur promoting wine as a catalyst for socioeconomic development for Black wine workers in South Africa. Satterfield is among the most prominent and respected voices in U.S. food media, and host of the critically acclaimed Netflix docuseries, High on the Hog.
Celine Glasier
Executive Producer, Podcasts
A Bay Area native, Celine is a food anthropologist and media producer. Before Whetstone, she worked on seasons two and three of Christopher Kimball's Milk Street TV, as well as pre-production for Milk Street Radio. She has worked on events for Cherry Bombe Magazine & Radio and for The New Paris' Lindsay Tramuta's forthcoming book.
Celine earned her Masters in Gastronomy from Boston University in 2019. Through her graduate work, she spent a semester at the American University of Paris studying refugee foodways and the future impact adopted western diets will have on refugees.
She is particularly interested in preservation anthropology as it relates to food, meals and recipes.
David Alexander
Head of Video
David Alexander is an independent multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker/director with over 10+ years producing films on behalf of clients from all over the world.
His work has appeared in outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, TIME Magazine, The Economist, ESPN, ABC News, and others.
His work for organizations such as The Elton John AIDS Foundation, The Starkey Hearing Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and others, has helped raise large sums of financial support, as well as public awareness for a variety of targeted developmental goals worldwide.
David earned his Masters degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2011.
Alexandra Bowman
Lead Designer
Alexandra Bowman is a California native, illustrator, designer, muralist and cat lover living in Oakland.
She graduated with a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago before moving back to the golden state in 2014. Some of her clients include: The New York Times, Pop Up Magazine and Food 52.
Alexandra’s art practice focuses on ways to celebrate representation through authentic experiences. By favoring accessible mediums including illustrated prints, and public art, her goal is to continue a dialogue about the importance of being seen in a world where many feel invisible. She recognizes representation is a step towards healing but often times, it is not nearly enough. Through monuments of visibility and depictions of herself and her community, she hopes that others can see her work as a call for social change.
Layla Schlack
Whetstone Magazine & W Journal
Layla Schlack is Senior Editor at Wine Enthusiast. She's written and edited stories about cooking, dining, spirits, entertaining and travel, as well as developed recipes, in various editorial roles at Fine Cooking and Hemispheres. Her writing has also appeared in TASTE, Extra Crispy, Edible Brooklyn, The Hairpin and The Toast. When she’s not editing Wine Enthusiast’s food, spirits and entertaining stories, she can usually be found clanging around her Connecticut kitchen.
Kat Hong
Podcast Editor
Kat is a writer, editor, and producer based out of Los Angeles. Originally from Hilo, Hawaii, she’s always been fascinated with the ways food and media intersect to enhance the stories, history, and innately personal experience we have with what we eat. In addition to her role as Podcast Editor at Whetstone, her work has also been featured in The Infatuation, Writing For A Real World, and San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, and has worked on projects like The Curious Eater and The Margaret Cho.
Quentin Lebeau
Associate Producer
Quentin Lebeau is a graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He concentrated in Marketing and leans heavily towards the creative side of business. His real passion is film, both as a consumer, and as a videographer himself. He’s an avid traveller and takes the chance to discover a new place, thing or food whenever the opportunity presents itself.
As a member of the Whetstone team, Quentin hopes to continue pursuing his interests, while further developing the Whetstone brand and expanding its mission of championing food to expand human empathy.
Haven Ogbaselase
Intern
Haven holds a Bachelor's degree in Television & Media Management from Drexel University. Her experience began in commercial filming, but her passion for food has shifted her interest towards documentary work, focusing on preservation and culture locality. At Whetstone, she hopes to help expand the reach of the Point of Origin podcast and further its mission of advocating food, as well as promoting the stories and experiences surrounding it. Haven has also recently been accepted to study at The University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy for a Master's in Food Culture & Communications.