The Grass Ceiling of Women in Ag and AgTech
Women in Ag and AgTech are creating solutions to agricultures’ biggest challenges. AgTech is an emerging category with potential to impact those challenges. Yet women founders remain underfunded and underrepresented. How do we challenge the status quo and the structural bias? Our guest Amy Wu tackles that issue by storytelling through her project, From Farms to Incubators.
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SHOW NOTES
Amy Wu is an award-winning writer for the women’s ag and agtech movement.
She is the Creator & Chief Content Director of From Farms to Incubators, a multimedia platform that uses documentary, video, photography and the written word to tell the stories of women leaders and innovators in agtech. It has a mission of highlighting women in food, farming, and farmtech, especially women of color. From Farms to Incubators includes an award-winning documentary short that has been screened at SXSW, and a best-selling book “From Farms to Incubators: Women Revolutionizing How Our Food Is Grown” that was released in May 2021.
In 2020 Amy was named on Worth magazine’s “Groundbreakers 2020 list of 50 Women Changing the World” list. She was also a recipient of the Women in Agribusiness Demeter Award of Excellence. In 2021 she was named by Food Tank as one of “27 Inspiring Women Reshaping the Food System.”
Prior to starting From Farms to Incubators, Amy spent over two decades as an investigative reporter at media outlets including the USA Today Network where she
reported on agriculture and agtech for The Salinas Californian.
She has a bachelor’s degree in history from New York University and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.
Book - From Farms to Incubators by Amy Wu (bookshop link supports a woman- and AAPI-owned bookstore in Long Beach CA)
Film - From Farms to Incubators
Money Where Our Mouths Are - “Money Where Our Mouths Are (MWOMA) is the first-ever investigation into the funding disparities between female and male founders in the Agri-FoodTech industry. This report raises important questions, highlights the gaps through data and testimonials, and establishes a framework for next steps.”
PRODUCTION NOTES
Executive Producer, Host and Writer: Audra Mulkern
Producer: Joe Mulkern
FFP Theme Song: Written and Performed by Joe Mulkern
Episode Song: Iron and Steel
Written By
Matthew Wigton
Performed By
Wicked Cinema
Produced By
Wicked Cinema