Allison Aubrey
Allison Aubrey is an American journalist. She is a National Public Radio (NPR) correspondent for food and nutrition. Aubrey won a James Beard Award twice for her television series, NPR’s Tiny Desk Kitchen. The James Beard Foundation Awards are annual awards presented by the James Beard Foundation to recognize and acknowledge chefs, restaurant owners, authors, and journalists. Aubrey and her colleagues at NPR’s food blog, The Salt won the foundation’s award for Best Food Blog.
Diane Hatz
A social entrepreneur who’s a creative marketing expert, Diane Hatz raises awareness about problems and solutions with food and farming while activating individuals to make a change. Hatz is the Founder and Executive Director of Change Food, she was also the Founder and organizer for TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat” from 2010 to 2015. TEDxManhattan was an annual event that brought key experts in the food and farming movement to discuss issues with the U.S food system. Lastly, she’s worked at the GRACE Communications Foundation for 12 years and not only founded but directed Sustainable Table, a consumer program.
Denise O’Brien
Denise is a self-employed farmer who founded and coordinated Women, Food, and Agriculture Network (WFAN). She was a recipient of the Gloria Steinem Award and Iowa Farmers Union Young Leadership Award in 1997 and 1990. In 2000, Denise O’Brien was inducted into the Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame.
Andrea Harris
As an environmental engineer, Andrea Harris is currently working in Livestock and Environment Research Lab in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. As of now, Harris is working on greenhouse gas emissions of dairy farm cattle and swine farms. Her favorite part of being a rising Environmental Engineer is that being a woman in a normally male-dominant field. To her, it’s empowering.
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin, who is well-known for her work on the structure of penicillin, insulin, and vitamin B12, won the Nobel Prize as a British Biochemist. As a young woman, she became very interested in Chemistry, but that particular field was more directed towards boys. Because of the struggle of being a female biochemist in the early 1900s, the laboratory condition was very undeveloped. Her lab was in one corner of Oxford University Musem of Natural History. It had only one window, which was accessed through a rickety staircase. Neither did she have any student to work under her. Although it was hard to succeed in a field that is male-based, she slowly began to collect money, which she used to buy the X-Ray apparatus for her lab. And just like that, her study began in 1934. Hodgkin won and received many awards before she died on July 29th in 1994. These awards include the Royal Medal by the Royal Society in 1956, the Nobel Prize in 1964, the Copley Medal by the Royal Society in 1976, and the Lomonosov Gold Medal from the Russian Academy of Science in 1982. Dorothy was also one of five “Women of Achievement” selected for a set of British stamps issued in August of 1996.
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