Biography:
Patty Cantrell heads up Regional Food Solutions, which provides organizations and businesses with expert project development, writing, research, and facilitation.passion for the strength and necessity of community-based economies has led her from family farm roots to a career of telling the local business story as a professional journalist and policy advocate. She was previously a program director at the Michigan Land Use Institute, a statewide public interest advocacy group based in Traverse City, Michigan. She was a member of the 2008-2009 class of Food and Society Fellows.