Organization: Foxfire Ranch

Annette Hollowell wears many crowns — mother, entrepreneur, facilitator and lawyer with a particular calling towards community building, peace work and Black liberation. She is a manager, land steward and advisor to Foxfire Ranch an 80-acre recreational farm and entertainment venue that has been in the Hollowell family for more than a century. She is an excellent hostess committed to holding interracial and inter-generational spaces for rest, retreat, deep learning, connection, healing and celebration. Her storytelling is rooted in ancestry, culture and Mississippi’s long standing legacies of Black landownership.