April Dodd

April, a native of Lexington, Kentucky, is a graduate of Middlebury College, where she studied Linguistics, Russian, and French. Her undergraduate thesis addressed the semantic development of the word "organic" over the past 200 years. After graduation, she received a fellowship to teach English in Saint-Etienne, France. She then moved to Nairobi, Kenya, where she worked briefly for a cupcake shop before starting her own business, The Open Table Cooking School, which bolsters earning power and job security for Kenyan women by training them in international culinary skills. She spent the 2017 summer season at World Farmers, a Massachusetts-based farming and food business incubator for refugee and immigrant farmers.