Rose McGee is Founder of the internationally recognized Sweet Potato Comfort Pie® approach – a catalyst for caring and building community. She is a well-known facilitator, one of Minnesota’s 50 Over 50, a member of Women Who Really Cook, the Women’s Business Development Center, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and works as a Minnesota Humanities Officer. She resides in Golden Valley, Minnesota where she was named “Citizen of The Year,” presented the “Bill Hobbs Human Rights Award,” and is a recipient of the prestigious 2019 Bush Fellowship. She is featured in the PBS documentary, A Few Good Pie Places, author of the books, Story Circle Stories, Kumbayah The Juneteenth Story and has a TEDx Talk on The Power of Pie. In 2021 her children’s book, Can’t Nobody Make a Sweet Potato Pie like Our Mama, will be released by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.