Catherine Pierson

Catherine Pierson serves as a volunteer environmental educator in the New Orleans School District. After Hurricane Katrina, she helped to create “Edible Schoolyard New Orleans,” which changed the way children eat, learn, and live. This program has created acres of organic gardens that are used by five FirstLine schools—where over 4,000 garden and culinary classes are taught, and 70 food education events occur each year. One supporter said, “Cathy knew that engaging children through their senses was a magical and transformative experience that many of the urban children never experienced.”