Lori Stern is executive director of Marbleseed, formerly the Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service. She has worked in community and environmental health, social justice, and food access. From 2014 to 2020, she brought all those things into focus through her farm-to-table restaurant, Cow & Quince, a community-supported restaurant in New Glarus, WI. She lives with her wife, LeAnn, on a small farm near Monticello, WI, where they grow vegetables and raise chickens and goats.