Jodi is an author and entrepreneur with a focus on food systems and social justice. She is the founder and former owner of Short Street Cakes, and her book, Cake Ladies: Celebrating a Southern Tradition, was published by Sterling Publishing in 2011. Jodi offers classes and one-on-one mentoring through Mountain Bizworks and Birds Eye Business Planning and Adventures, where she relishes working with small-scale food producers and farmers, independent artists, healing arts practitioners, and other social entrepreneurs to discover meaning in their work through developing their mission and vision.