SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Alberto Cortes became the first Latino CEO of Mama’s Kitchen in 2002. ABC 10News sat down with him to discuss his experience, but if you ask him for a job description, he’ll give you a humble response.
“I don’t feel like I’m in charge of anything,” Cortes says.
Under his leadership, Mama’s Kitchen became the largest nonprofit to provide free home-delivered meals in San Diego County. It’s also the only one that specifically tailors meals for clients with chronic illnesses, like cancer and diabetes.
“Is there one experience in particular that sticks out to you?” 10News reporter Perla Shaheen asked.
“I was delivering food to a gentleman, and I took the food up to him and gave him his birthday cake and wished him a happy birthday, and he started bawling,” Cortes said. “Nobody had remembered his birthday. That’s the intangible aspect of the work we …