Grace Oedel

Grace cannot believe her good fortune in ending up in a place that so perfectly combines her passions for teaching, farming, social justice, and eating. Raised a Quaker, Grace graduated with a BA from Yale University in Religious Studies with a focus on religious communities’ environmental activism. She worked in Kolhapur, India for a workers’ rights organization, and then decided to pursue social justice work closer to home. She grew involved in the food justice movement, and worked on a small urban farm as a farm manager and educator.  She studied cooking on the line in restaurants and spent her free time experimenting over the stove and in the soil. At Woolman she is thrilled to be developing a more integrated Farm to Table program, teaching Garden Class for students, a cooking class for interns, and moving the sourcing of the food in the Woolman kitchen towards being as local and sustainable as possible.