Hiraeth aligns with the James Beard Foundation value of community . Since moving to Columbus, Chef BJ Lieberman has supported Freedom a la Cart, which empowers survivors of sex trafficking and exploitation to build lives of freedom and self-sufficiency. He served as their head chef for the first six months he was in Columbus and has supported them financially in the years since with donations from his restaurants’ proceeds and by auctioning off private dinners for their annual Eat Up Columbus event.