Hannah Jensen Kempfer
Hannah Jensen Kempfer was the first woman from rural Minnesota elected to the state legislature, serving nine terms in the Minnesota legislature between 1922 and 1942.
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Rosalinda Guillen
Rosalinda Guillen is a farmworker and justice leader as well as the Executive Director of Community to Community Development.
Nurhaliza Mohmath
Mohamath, as the food justice coordinator for the Rainier Beach Action Coalition (RBAC) works directly with Black, Brown, Indigenous and other people of color farmers and advocates to support them.
Helen Mary Wilson
Helen Wilson achieved recognition as a leading figure in the Women’s Division of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union and, in later years, as a writer.
Mary Elizabeth Small
1800s New Zealand market gardener and farmer
Sarah Cryer
New Zealand farmer, community worker and philanthropist
Sarah O’Connell
Sarah O’Connell ran a notable dairy, having 50 cows milking in 1856.
Margaret Gardner
New Zealand farmer and mill owner
Mary Cuddie
1800s New Zealand farmer, midwife and shopkeeper
Dr Catherine Woteki
Agriculture and food scientist and nutritionist who served in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics during the Obama-Biden administration, where she oversaw USDA’S Agricultural Research Service, Economic Research Service, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, and the National Agricultural Statistics Service.