Meet Vanessa Mota, the founder and CEO of My Dominican Kitchen, a bilingual food blog and content platform dedicated to helping home cooks put together tasty traditional Dominican and Latin-inspired meals. Born and raised in the Dominican Republic, Vanessa came to the U.S. with her mother at age 14, and it wasn't until she was married and pregnant with her daughter, craving the homemade meals her mom and grandmother used to make, that she began learning to cook in earnest. That journey and a desire to preserve her family's recipes…led her to launch My Dominican Kitchen.

She is the author of the Amazon bestselling cookbook "The Dominican Kitchen," published in May 2023, featuring 80+ authentic recipes inspired by her upbringing in the Dominican Republic. Motivated in part by the scarcity of Dominican cookbooks on bookstore shelves, Vanessa set out to fill that gap and give Dominican cuisine the visibility it deserves within the broader Latin culinary conversation.

An award-winning food photographer, cookbook author, and nationally recognized content creator, Vanessa brings a bilingual, community-first approach to her work. She describes herself as a bilingual digital strategist, content creator, and community builder, and her platform reflects that… blending recipes, storytelling, and cultural preservation. Before going all-in on My Dominican Kitchen as an entrepreneur, she built a career in project management, a background she credits with helping her stay organized while writing and structuring her cookbook.

Vanessa is also the host of the upcoming Sobremesa Sessions podcast, and this September she's bringing that spirit to life in person with Sobremesa Sessions: The Brunch.

Inspired by sobremesa… that lingering time after a meal when no one's quite ready to leave the table… the event brings women together for an afternoon of brunch, meaningful conversation, and genuine connection, stepping away from typical networking-event energy in favor of the kinds of conversations we don't always make space for.

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Today, My Dominican Kitchen has grown to a community of over 42,000 followers, and Vanessa continues to champion Dominican food and culture as one of its most recognized voices online.

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