Katy Osuna is the host and creator of Copper & Heat, the two-time James Beard Award-winning podcast that addresses the complex social interactions at play in restaurants. While working on her degree in anthropology and journalism, Katy discovered her love for observing social interactions while making cheese and playing with baby goats (she was doing research about food culture and cheesemaking).
After graduating college, she worked for a couple of years at a food service job training nonprofit in Boise, Idaho, before deciding to pursue her love of the culinary arts by attending culinary school in the San Francisco Bay Area. After working for several years in the Bay Area restaurant scene, including the 3-star Michelin Manresa Restaurant as a chef de partie, she left restaurant work to focus full-time on Copper & Heat in 2020.
