Recognized by the United Nations as a ‘Vegan Revolutionary’ in its ‘The Future of Women’ global initiative, and named one of Forbes 50 Women over 50, Miyoko Schinner, Founder & CEO of Miyoko’s Creamery, is an epicurean activist, who is leading the creation of the animal-free, plant dairy food system.
Through an innovative proprietary process that merges culinary arts and food science, Schinner has cracked the code in making fermented cheese and cultured butter from plant milks that rival animal dairy counterparts on compassion, taste & nutrition on a world-changing scale.
Miyoko’s Creamery products can be found at over 30,000 stores in the US and Canada, and are distributed as well in South Africa, Hong Kong, and Singapore. The pioneer of the plant-dairy cheese revolution, Schinner is a passionate culinarian, former restaurateur, TV personality, and best-selling cookbook author. Schinner has dedicated her life to inspiring compassion through the joy of food and the positivity plants and is the co-founder of Rancho Compasión, a farmed animal sanctuary in California that provides a home to over 120 rescued farm animals.
Schinner has been featured in Bloomberg, Forbes, The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Huffpost, Food & Wine and many more.