Sue Beckwith has initiated and led a variety of breakthrough service projects during her 40+ year career: the “women in non-traditional jobs” program at the City of Austin, the first City of Austin web site, the non-profit Austin Free-Net to ensure that all people had access to the internet; she worked alongside lower income students in St. Louis to design a literacy program using technology. In 2006, she became a farmer and led startup of Coyote Creek Organic Feed Mill, the first commercial organic feed mill in Texas and Jeremiah Cunningham’s World’s Best Eggs. She formed the Texas Center for Local Food with farmers to increase sales of healthy Texas grown foods to Texans which will improve the health of all Texans, preserve farmland, mitigate the effects of climate change and support resilient communities.