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Abby Fisher

Formerly enslaved plantation cook who built a business as an upscale caterer and cookbook author

Pennsylvania native Dorothy Molter spent over fifty years in Northern Minnesota, where she helped to run the Isle of Pines resort and provided nursing care for those in need. From the 1950s through the mid-1980s, she made batches of homemade root beer at her cabin on Knife Lake that drew thousands of tourists, anglers, and canoeists each summer and earned her the nickname “the Root Beer Lady.”

Rosalinda Guillen

Rosalinda Guillen is a farmworker and justice leader as well as the Executive Director of Community to Community Development.

Ruby Chow

Ruby Chow was dubbed a “living legend” (Rhodes) for her 50-year career as a restaurateur, Chinese community pioneer, civic activist, public official, and a major bridge between Seattle’s Chinese community and the city at large.

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.

Una Carter

New Zealand cooking teacher, demonstrator and writer

Margaret Gardner

New Zealand farmer and mill owner

Mary Anne Barker

English author who wrote mainly about life in New Zealand.

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.

Norah Burnard

New Zealand school dental supervisor, journal editor