Bio & Life Work
7 Effective Food Justice, Health, Environmental & Animal Welfare NGOs
And now a break from our regularly scheduled post on what to cook for the holidays, to ways you can amplify your impact on the health of the planet, and animal welfare. To round out the year, I’m offering advice on where to make end-of-year, tax-deductible donations. (If you need ideas for a Holiday Dinner, click here. And for tasty appetizers and sides, click here).
Bio
I’ve worked as a marketing professor, investigative journalist, marketing consultant, consumer advocate, and anti-Trump hell-raiser. In 2012, I co-founded The Philanthropy Connection, a women’s grant-making organization, and served as its president until 2017. I have an M.B.A. (University of Texas Austin), and a Ph.D. in Marketing (Northwestern University). I live with my husband Max Bazerman and good dog Becca Sue (a rescue from Natchez, Mississippi) in Cambridge, MA.
The Early Years: Twinkies, Hot Dogs & Fried Chicken
I grew up in Pikesville, a suburb of Baltimore, in the 1960s. My mother wasn’t much interested in cooking, and my father wasn’t interested in eating much beyond Twizzlers, ice cream, and Milk Duds. A typical weekday meal was broiled chicken, flaccid green beans out of a can, and an occasional baked potato with margarine. My favorite foods were Hostess Twinkies, broiled Hebrew National hot dogs wrapped in a slice of pan-fried bologna, coddies, and salami sandwiches on mustard-smeared Wonder bread. Read More