Suzan Erem is a co-founder and Executive Director of the Sustainable Iowa Land Trust, a statewide conservation organization that permanently protects working lands to grow healthy, clean table food. Suzan's career has spanned two professions - writer and organizer. She has written 7 books, and organized for such diverse efforts as affordable utilities, better working conditions for janitors and better union contracts for child abuse investigators. For the last 7 years, she has dedicated herself to saving the last of Iowa’s true family farms so that future generations will enjoy affordable, healthy land on which to grow food for their communities.