Los Angeles, CA – September 9, 2025 – Last night at a private event at Alta Adams in Los Angeles, Prosperity Market announced a generous contribution from music industry legend and philanthropist Dr. Dre. The donation will enable Prosperity Market to build two mobile trailers, commencing the next phase of their mission to increase food access and spotlight local Black farmers, food producers, and chefs. In addition to Dr. Dre, event attendees included entrepreneur and actress Tabitha Brown, as well as local media, plus longtime supporters and vendors of Prosperity Market. Two of the three trailers were on-site and guests were able to take tours and shop as a preview for the launch. (Cover Photo credit: Asha Mone)
Part food truck, part farmers market, the 48-foot trailers will travel throughout the city with shelves stocked with produce and goods from Black-owned businesses (including both local and national brands like Ghetto Gastro, Ghost Town Oats, The Farmer Ken, and Gloria’s Shito) and a rotating roster of LA’s best chefs popping up in the trailers’ kitchens. Prosperity Market co-founders Kara Still and Carmen Dianne envisioned the trailers as farmers markets-on-wheels, and unveiled their first fully-built solar-powered and electric trailer at the 2023 LA Auto Show. Through in-person and online pop-up markets and soon, their trio of mobile trailers, Prosperity Market makes it easy to support local Black businesses while creating food access for all communities by bringing fresh, affordable food to every LA neighborhood.
The first trailer was made possible in 2022 by a $100k+ crowdfund (with additional support from Jrue and Lauren Holiday’s JLH Social Impact Fund), and will be popping up around Los Angeles in early 2026, with two additional trailers (made possible with Dr. Dre’s contribution) to follow. Once fully operational, the fleet of trailers will operate daily, traveling from Malibu to Compton and everywhere in between, with plans to eventually expand to other cities outside Los Angeles.
Through Dr. Dre’s donation, Prosperity Market’s fiscal sponsor SIMA is also able to provide nearly 6,000 young African women with professional training in health, education and entrepreneurship across 48 countries on the continent, through a collaboration with Nigeria-based leadership institute, LEAP Africa.
About Prosperity Market
Prosperity Market is a mobile farmers market featuring Black farmers, food producers, and chefs. Through pop-up markets and events regularly hosted around Los Angeles, Prosperity Market makes it easy to support local Black-owned businesses while creating food access for all communities. Founded amid the pandemic and social unrest of 2020 by makeup and fashion industry vets Carmen Dianne and Kara Still, Prosperity Market has now expanded throughout the city, and is launching a farmers market on wheels in the form of a mobile trailer in 2026. Prosperity Market has been featured by Good Morning America, Los Angeles Times, Entrepreneur, Food & Wine, KCRW, Woman’s Day, LA Magazine, The Rachael Ray Show, Los Angeles Sentinel, KTLA, NBC, CBS, and more. For more information about Prosperity Market or the mobile trailer, visit www.prosperitymarketla.com or follow Prosperity Market on Instagram at @Prosperity.Market.
About SIMA Studios
SIMA Studios (@SIMAstudios) is a nonprofit impact media agency that supports content creators, educators, and changemakers driving positive social change since 2012. SIMA started as the first international impact media competition honoring achievements in the creative, human rights, and humanitarian fields. Today, SIMA is the most renowned global curator in the social impact space, serving independent film, social justice and academic industries worldwide.
In addition to their Fiscal Sponsorship Program, SIMA is best known for creating a new paradigm for merit and distribution of social issue storytelling via the global film festival, SIMA Awards, their flagship education program, SIMA Academy, and the SIMA Traveling Series that supports grassroots projects and community events around the world. To date, SIMA’s robust impact programming directly supports over 145,000 students; 5,400 educators; 3,800 artists and 105 community projects spanning 142 countries.
