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World Peace center for the
African diaspora which includes African-Americans, Afro-Caribbean, and Africans; the venue received LEED Silver Certification in 2012. As a Cultural Ambassador, Makeda acknowledges that San Diego and Balboa Park are ancestral Kumeyaay Indian territory, and she states this at the beginning of programs run at the WorldBeat Center.
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Waystation by
Monarch Watch, as a Wildlife Habitat by the National Wildlife Federation, and awarded by the 2015 Del Mar Horticultural Fair. The garden is home to two Multinational Peace Poles, and is co-recipient of a four-year National Science Foundation grant with Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology to incorporate African American and Latino students.
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Makeda received the
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As an award-winning garden creator, Makeda created the
Children’s EthnoBotany Peace Garden that has been recognized as the first sustainable edible garden in Balboa Park; it was certified as an Earth Friendly Garden by San Diego Master Gardeners, as Pollinator Habitat by Xerces Society, as a Monarch
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In 2016 Makeda was awarded the KPBS San Diego Local Hero Award. In 2017 she received the Jan Merrit
Leadership Award by San Diego Unified School District TRACE Program, and in 2018 Women of the Year Award by CA State 78th Assembly District. In 2019 she received the President’s Award from the NAACP
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As an entrepreneur, in 1981 Makeda founded The Baobab, an
African crafts/cultural center in Golden Hill area. As a radio show host of Reggae Makossa, Cheatom has been on the air for over 30 years. As the founder of WorldBeat Center in Balboa Park in 1989, Makeda created a music, dance, arts and
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As a reggae music promoter in 1980, Makeda staged her first reggae concert; previous to that, she had befriended Bob Marley which led to Makeda organizing Bob Marley Day
Festival concerts, thus attracting most of the famous Reggae artists; all told, she produced 39 annual reggae festivals.
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San Diego chapter. Additionally, she was honored on a permanent San Diego City mural, and in the San Diego Union-Tribune, she was highlighted as one of the 2020 Phenomenal Women of San Diego and in a “Name Drop” column in 2021. Makeda was named a "Woman of the
District" by State Senator
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Additionally, Makeda is the co-founder of Casa del Tunel in
Tijuana, Mexico, which is an art and cultural center to teach, perform, and present traditional forms of art; philanthropically, its focus is also to help Haitian and African refugees in Tijuana.
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Prophet International Vegetarian Restaurant (1971–1985), which was the first vegetarian restaurant in San Diego attracting luminaries such as George Harrison, Gloria Swanson, Dick Van Dyke, Dyan Cannon, and Dick Gregory.
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Builder and she was named "San Diego Trailblazer" by the African American Heritage Foundation. She has been recognized as one of the 25 most influential women in San Diego’s history by San Diego’s 10 News viewers.
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