Owner, Regional Food Solutions
Patty Cantrell researches, writes and speaks nationally about local food as community economic development. She also offers strategic communications, facilitation and project development through her business Regional Food Solutions LLC. Current writing includes Good Food Economy Digest blogs for the Wallace Center at Winrock International, home of the National Good Food Network. She brought her food system insights and expertise to the TEDx Manhattan stage in 2012 and worked on national policy and communications initiatives in 2007-2009 as a Kellogg Food and Society Fellow.
She holds a master's degree in business administration from Drury University and bachelor's degrees in economics and political science from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her background includes a Fulbright Scholarship to study economic systems in Europe, and newspaper and magazine work as a business journalist.