Dorothy Faye Pirtle is a Master of Public Policy student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Luskin School of Public Affairs and a recipient of the UCLA Graduate Opportunity Program award. She also completed the Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Program’s Junior Summer Institute Fellowship at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. In 2020, Pirtle founded Lily of the Nile 1992, a 501(c)3 organization operating farmers’ markets, farm stands, and food distributions in South Central Los Angeles, celebrating African American culinary traditions. Pirtle holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Science from the University of California, Irvine, and is an alumna of Los Angeles Trade Technical College’s Culinary Arts, Professional Baking, and Restaurant Management programs. Her research interests include Community and Economic Development, Environmental Policy, Food Policy, GIS, and Social Policy.

A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Dorothy has earned recognition through several scholarships, including the Community Development Corporation of San Diego Arthur H. Goodman Scholarship, Congressional Black Caucus Spouses Education Scholarship, Korean American Scholarship Foundation Western Scholarship Award, LINC TELACU Education Foundation Scholarship, and the Women’s Organization Reaching Koreans (WORK) Hae Won Park Memorial Scholarship.

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