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Tonya Pitts - A sommelier for over 20 years & the wine director at One Market Restaurant.
Brenae Royal - Vineyard Manager for Monte Rosso Vineyard.
Sarah Tracey - Wine columnist for Martha Stewart Living & runs The Lush Life.
Xingyu Chen - Started the Wine Memoir blog & uses her Instagram platform to reach consumers.
Dorothy J. Gaiter - Created "Tastings" column, & is senior editor of The Grape Collective, magazine.
Regine Rousseau - Launched Shall We Wine , an experiential marketing & event planning company.
Courtney Kingston - Founder & CEO of Kingston Family Vineyards in Chile’s Casablanca Valley.
Tanisha Townsend - Professor in Paris, where she also hosts food and wine tours as Girl Meets Glass.
Tamuka Araviashvili - Founded a school in Kakheti dedicated to educating people on Georgian wine.
Remi Cohen - Chief Operating Officer of Lede Family Wines.
Amy Zhou - Partner & general manager at Michelin- & co-founder of Wine Empowered.
Allison Levine - Created her own business —Please the Palate— to organize wine trade & media events.
Adrienne Ash - Winemaker & part-owner of The Austin Winery. Specializes in clay-aged/ fermented wine
Anne Claire Brewer - Guest Beverage Director at Jester King Brewery.
Emily Plant - Manager of an all-female staff at a Twin Liquors store in Austin.
Ellie Cohn - Running the wine program at The Island House Hotel in Nassau, Bahamas.
Leslie Sbrocco - Paired her radio & television background with her love of wine & never looked back
Jennifer McDonald - Launched Jenny Dawn Cellars in downtown Wichita, Kansas.
Haley Fortier - Opened haley.henry, wine bar featuring small production wines from around the globe.
Grace Gates - Food and Beverage Director for Austin’s Carpenter Hotel