Mitzi Perdue

Board Member | Executive Officer

Mitzi Perdue holds a BA with honors from Harvard University and an MPA from the George Washington University.  

She is a past president of the 35,000-member American Agri-Women. She’s also a former syndicated columnist for Scripps Howard, and her column, The Environment and You, was in the 1990s, the most widely syndicated environmental column in the country. 

Her television series, Country Magazine, was syndicated to 76 stations. She’s the founder of CERES Farms, the second-generation family-owned vineyards that sell wine grapes to wineries such as Mondavi, Kendall-Jackson, Bogle, Folie a Deux, and Toasted Head. 

Mitzi has recently become involved in mine-clearing efforts in Ukraine.  After she had written an article in Psychology Today about Ukraine, the head of the Kyiv Region Police invited her to come to Ukraine and see for herself what she had written about.  

As a result of her three recent trips there, she’s had 81 published articles. The interviews for some of these were written in bomb shelters in cities under active rocket attack or in active mine fields.