Mitzi Perdue is a Cum Laude graduate of Harvard and holds an MPA from the George Washington University. As a former rice grower in California, she is a past president of the 40,000-member American Agri-Women. In addition, she was one of the U.S. Delegates to the United Nations Conference on Women in Nairobi and is a former Commissioner for the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. Her career has centered on women helping women, and during her tenure as president of this country’s oldest and largest farm women’s organization, the focus of her presidency was on giving women the tools needed for professional success and influence, including public speaking, parliamentary procedure, time management, public relations, and learning how to work effectively in organizations. A science writer, Mitzi blogs for Psychology Today, the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents, Wealth Management, and Trusts and Estates Management. She was a syndicated columnist for 22 years, first for California’s Capitol News and later, for the Scripps Howard News Service. For years she was the most widely syndicated environmental writer in the US. She has produced and hosted more than 400 half-hour interview shows, and currently hosts EarthX TV’s Pen and the Planet tv series. CERES Farms, which Mitzi founded and which her sons manage, is a major supplier of wine grapes to Joel Gott, Robert Mondavi, Kendall Jackson, Gallo, McManis, Sutter Home, Diageo and Wine Group