Maria Rodale is the CEO and Chairman of Rodale Inc., the
world's leading multimedia company with a focus on health,
wellness, and the environment, and the largest independent book
publisher in the United States. Rodale reaches 70 million people
worldwide through brands such as Prevention and Men's Health;
through books such as The South Beach Diet and Al Gore's An
Inconvenient Truth; and through numerous digital properties. She is
founding editor of the company's newest online venture, Rodale.com,
which features the latest news and information about healthy living
on a healthy planet, as well as her blog, Maria's Farm Country
Kitchen.
Maria Rodale joined the family business in 1987, first working in
circulation and direct marketing and eventually leading Rodale's
in-house direct marketing agency. In 1998, she served as director
of strategy, where she led the strategic review, planning
processes, and management changes that refocused the company on
publishing information on healthy, active lifestyles. She also led
the company's Organic Living division, Rodale's first integrated
brand division, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of Organic
Gardening and oversaw all of Rodale's gardening books. She joined
the Rodale board in 1991 and was elected Chairman in 2007.
She has won numerous awards, including in 2004 the National Audubon
Society's "Rachel Carson Award" and in 2007 the United Nations
Population Fund's "Award for the Health and Dignity of Women." In
2009 she was named to Pennsylvania's "Best 50 Women in Business"
List. She is also a member of the board of Bette Midler's New York
Restoration Project, co-chair of the Rodale Institute, and a board
member of the Lehigh Valley Health Network.
Maria is a mother, an activist, and a businesswoman and has made
promoting the benefits of an organic lifestyle both her personal
mission and her business. She lives in an ecologically friendly
house in Bethlehem, PA, with her husband, three children, one dog,
one cat, and six guinea hens.
“Maria's pedigree gives her the authority and credibility to
educate Americans on this important subject matter. The information
in Organic Manifesto will empower you not only to save your own
life and the lives of your family but also to do your part in
saving the world. If you read one book this year, please make this
one it!” —Jillian Michaels
“Organic Manifesto is a breakthrough. It is a clarion call
revealing the power of organic farming to improve our health, our
economy, our politics, and our planet.” —Harvey Karp, MD, FAAP
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