Lisa Kivirist

Lisa Cindy Kivirist (born April 14, 1967 in Illinois) is an American author, women-farmer and cottage-food activist, entrepreneur, and writer. She founded the Rural Women’s Project. for the Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service and started the award-winning Inn Serendipity Bed & Breakfast, a small business completely powered by wind and solar energy generated on site and Wisconsin Travel Green certified.

Kivirist authored the award-finalist ''Soil Sisters'' (New Society Publishers) and ''Kiss Off Corporate America'' (Andrews McMeel). She also co-authored ''Homemade for Sale'', ''Farmstead Chef'', the award-winning ''ECOpreneuring'' and ''Rural Renaissance'' with her husband, John D. Ivanko, all published by New Society Publishers

A leading national advocate and spokesperson for women farmers, Kivirist was named by In Business Magazine as a "Woman of Industry" for her leadership growing the women in sustainable agriculture movement. Kivirist is a Senior Fellow, Endowed Chair in Agricultural Systems at the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Minnesota, focusing on identifying opportunities to champion leadership development among female farmers and rural women. She's also a distinguished member of the IATP Food and Society Fellows and serves on the National Outreach Committee for the Sustainable Agriculture Research Education, the sustainable agriculture division of the United States Department of Agriculture, advocating for a voice for women farmers.

As an activist, Kivirist joined two other farmers in Wisconsin to sue the State of Wisconsin in 2016 over the constitutionality of the state law preventing cookies baked in a home kitchen to be sold to the public. Provided by Wikipedia